This article is from the source 'nytimes' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/world/middleeast/palestinian-stabs-israeli-soldier-at-tel-aviv-train-station.html
The article has changed 11 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 6 | Version 7 |
|---|---|
| Israeli Woman Is Dead and a Soldier Is Stabbed in Separate Palestinian Attacks | Israeli Woman Is Dead and a Soldier Is Stabbed in Separate Palestinian Attacks |
| (about 1 hour later) | |
| JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman was killed and an Israeli soldier was critically wounded on Monday in separate stabbing attacks, the latest in a series that signal how Israeli-Palestinian relations have deteriorated since the war in Gaza over the summer. Both attacks were carried out by Palestinian men, one in the occupied West Bank and the other in the bustling commercial center of Tel Aviv. | JERUSALEM — An Israeli woman was killed and an Israeli soldier was critically wounded on Monday in separate stabbing attacks, the latest in a series that signal how Israeli-Palestinian relations have deteriorated since the war in Gaza over the summer. Both attacks were carried out by Palestinian men, one in the occupied West Bank and the other in the bustling commercial center of Tel Aviv. |
| Micky Rosenfeld, a spokesman for the Israeli police, said the woman, 26, was killed near the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, about 14 miles southwest of Jerusalem. He said a man got out of a vehicle in a busy traffic circle there during the afternoon rush hour and knifed the woman and two other Jews. | |
| A security guard from the settlement shot the suspected assailant, who was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Relatives said the suspect is a member of Islamic Jihad and has served time in an Israeli prison. | |
| The Tel Aviv attack took place around midday near a crowded train station, where the soldier was stabbed several times and critically wounded. The police arrested an 18-year-old man from a refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus whose family said he was in Tel Aviv illegally in search of work. | The Tel Aviv attack took place around midday near a crowded train station, where the soldier was stabbed several times and critically wounded. The police arrested an 18-year-old man from a refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus whose family said he was in Tel Aviv illegally in search of work. |
| Speaking after that attack but before the attack near Alon Shvut, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel declared, “We won’t tolerate violence.” | Speaking after that attack but before the attack near Alon Shvut, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel declared, “We won’t tolerate violence.” |
| “Those inciting to terrorism don’t want us to be anywhere — not Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv — I promise they won’t succeed,” Mr. Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud Party. “We will fight incitement” by the Palestinian Authority and by radical Islamists, he said, “and fight those calling to destroy us.” | “Those inciting to terrorism don’t want us to be anywhere — not Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv — I promise they won’t succeed,” Mr. Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud Party. “We will fight incitement” by the Palestinian Authority and by radical Islamists, he said, “and fight those calling to destroy us.” |
| The stabbings shook Israelis’ sense of security and heightened concern about a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, after weeks of mounting violence and tension in Jerusalem that has spiraled out to the West Bank and to Arab towns in northern Israel. The first was just off a busy highway in Tel Aviv, Israel’s business and cultural heart. The second was near where three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped in June and later killed, an episode that helped precipitate the bloody battle this summer between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamist movement that dominates the Gaza Strip. | The stabbings shook Israelis’ sense of security and heightened concern about a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, after weeks of mounting violence and tension in Jerusalem that has spiraled out to the West Bank and to Arab towns in northern Israel. The first was just off a busy highway in Tel Aviv, Israel’s business and cultural heart. The second was near where three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped in June and later killed, an episode that helped precipitate the bloody battle this summer between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamist movement that dominates the Gaza Strip. |
| “We are talking about the entrance to Alon Shvut, along the road our children walk to school on,” David Pearl, leader of the settlements south of Jerusalem known as Gush Etzion, said on Army Radio. “This is the continuation of a weak stand in front of terrorism.” | “We are talking about the entrance to Alon Shvut, along the road our children walk to school on,” David Pearl, leader of the settlements south of Jerusalem known as Gush Etzion, said on Army Radio. “This is the continuation of a weak stand in front of terrorism.” |
| Naftali Bennett, Israel’s economy minister and the leader of the ultranationalist Jewish Home party, blamed the violence on President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, whom he called “a terrorist in a suit.” | Naftali Bennett, Israel’s economy minister and the leader of the ultranationalist Jewish Home party, blamed the violence on President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, whom he called “a terrorist in a suit.” |
| “This is a grave attack that proves the concrete barricade concept has gone bankrupt,” Mr. Bennett said of the Tel Aviv attack on Monday, referring to the wall Israel started erecting a decade ago to prevent the entry of West Bank Palestinians into Israel without a permit. “It is impossible to protect people on the street. Rather, you have to make sure that the inciters, firecracker-shooters and rioters sit in prison.” | “This is a grave attack that proves the concrete barricade concept has gone bankrupt,” Mr. Bennett said of the Tel Aviv attack on Monday, referring to the wall Israel started erecting a decade ago to prevent the entry of West Bank Palestinians into Israel without a permit. “It is impossible to protect people on the street. Rather, you have to make sure that the inciters, firecracker-shooters and rioters sit in prison.” |
| On Sunday, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs accused Mr. Abbas and other Palestinian leaders of inciting the recent violence, and showed several video clips to international journalists, including two that specifically encouraged knife attacks. | On Sunday, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs accused Mr. Abbas and other Palestinian leaders of inciting the recent violence, and showed several video clips to international journalists, including two that specifically encouraged knife attacks. |
| “Even he who owns nothing but his faith has a kitchen in his house in which he has a knife,” Fathi Hamad, a leader of Hamas, said in a Nov. 5 television interview. “He must grab his knife and confront the Zionist enemy.” | “Even he who owns nothing but his faith has a kitchen in his house in which he has a knife,” Fathi Hamad, a leader of Hamas, said in a Nov. 5 television interview. “He must grab his knife and confront the Zionist enemy.” |
| In a clip from July, a Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, is heard saying that “anyone who owns a knife, a baton, a weapon and a car” and does not attack Israelis “does not belong to Palestine.” | In a clip from July, a Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, is heard saying that “anyone who owns a knife, a baton, a weapon and a car” and does not attack Israelis “does not belong to Palestine.” |
| Tayseer Nasrallah, a leader in Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction, said in an interview after the Tel Aviv attack that neither the Palestinian Authority nor Fatah, the party that dominates it, had ordered any of the recent attacks. Rather, he said, they were “carried out by angry individuals.” | Tayseer Nasrallah, a leader in Mr. Abbas’s Fatah faction, said in an interview after the Tel Aviv attack that neither the Palestinian Authority nor Fatah, the party that dominates it, had ordered any of the recent attacks. Rather, he said, they were “carried out by angry individuals.” |
| He called the stabbing of the soldier “a normal reaction to what’s happening,” citing the stalemated peace process, Israeli announcements about expanding settlements in East Jerusalem, and tension in the Old City holy site that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary. | He called the stabbing of the soldier “a normal reaction to what’s happening,” citing the stalemated peace process, Israeli announcements about expanding settlements in East Jerusalem, and tension in the Old City holy site that Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary. |
| “The Palestinian people are angry,” Mr. Nasrallah said. “I don’t condemn these attacks, and I only blame Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for the stalemated conditions.” | “The Palestinian people are angry,” Mr. Nasrallah said. “I don’t condemn these attacks, and I only blame Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for the stalemated conditions.” |
| The suspect in the West Bank stabbing is Maher Hamdi al-Hashlamon, 30, who lived in the nearby city of Hebron, according to a relative who gave his name only as Amjad. | |
| According to the Israeli news site Ynet, Mr. Hashlamon served five years in prison for throwing firebombs at an Israeli military patrol, and was released in 2005. His Facebook page includes a photo of a Palestinian man who was killed two weeks ago by Israeli security forces as they tried to arrest him. That man was wanted in connection with the attempted murder of Yehuda Glick, an American-Israeli agitator for greater Jewish access and prayer at a holy site in the Old City known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The Facebook page contains other references to the issue as well. | |
| Bentzi Sau, the police chief in Tel Aviv, said the soldier who was wounded there was stabbed several times by a man who also tried to grab his weapon. Officers followed a trail of dripped blood to the top of a four-story building about 200 yards away, where they arrested the suspect. | |
| According to his father, the suspect is Nur al-Din Khaled Abu Hashieh, a resident of the Askar refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus in the West Bank. The elder Mr. Abu Hashieh said in an interview that his son dropped out of school after ninth grade to do construction work, and had gone to Tel Aviv on Sunday in search of a job. | According to his father, the suspect is Nur al-Din Khaled Abu Hashieh, a resident of the Askar refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus in the West Bank. The elder Mr. Abu Hashieh said in an interview that his son dropped out of school after ninth grade to do construction work, and had gone to Tel Aviv on Sunday in search of a job. |
| “He is not involved in politics or in any political party, he is not an activist or a nationalist, he thinks only about getting work,” the father said. “He can’t get a permit to work in Israel, so he sneaks into Israel.” | “He is not involved in politics or in any political party, he is not an activist or a nationalist, he thinks only about getting work,” the father said. “He can’t get a permit to work in Israel, so he sneaks into Israel.” |
| The growing unrest has begun to have concrete political consequences for Mr. Netanyahu. One of his most frequent critics on the right, Danny Danon, said on Monday that he would challenge the prime minister for the chairmanship of the Likud Party. | The growing unrest has begun to have concrete political consequences for Mr. Netanyahu. One of his most frequent critics on the right, Danny Danon, said on Monday that he would challenge the prime minister for the chairmanship of the Likud Party. |
| Mr. Netanyahu “seems to have lost his way,” Mr. Danon said on Monday. “We in the Likud elected the prime minister to represent our values, but instead he disengaged from our ideology.” | Mr. Netanyahu “seems to have lost his way,” Mr. Danon said on Monday. “We in the Likud elected the prime minister to represent our values, but instead he disengaged from our ideology.” |
| The day before, a left-leaning minister, Amir Peretz of the Hatnua faction, resigned from Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet in protest over his leadership, saying the prime minister was “not the solution, he is the problem.” | The day before, a left-leaning minister, Amir Peretz of the Hatnua faction, resigned from Mr. Netanyahu’s cabinet in protest over his leadership, saying the prime minister was “not the solution, he is the problem.” |
| Separately, in Gaza, the Israeli military fired early Monday at two boats it suspected of smuggling goods from Egypt, sinking the boats and injuring two men. | Separately, in Gaza, the Israeli military fired early Monday at two boats it suspected of smuggling goods from Egypt, sinking the boats and injuring two men. |
| Hours later, Gaza fishermen were allowed to export their wares to the West Bank for the first time in years. Mounir Abu Hassira, a Gaza fishmonger and restaurant owner, said that some 770 pounds of shrimp, squid, sardines, crab and sea bass, caught by 15 different boats, were sent through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel on Monday, bound for the West Bank. The United Nations said the shipment was the first export of fish from Gaza since Israel tightened restrictions on the territory in 2007 after Hamas took power there. | Hours later, Gaza fishermen were allowed to export their wares to the West Bank for the first time in years. Mounir Abu Hassira, a Gaza fishmonger and restaurant owner, said that some 770 pounds of shrimp, squid, sardines, crab and sea bass, caught by 15 different boats, were sent through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel on Monday, bound for the West Bank. The United Nations said the shipment was the first export of fish from Gaza since Israel tightened restrictions on the territory in 2007 after Hamas took power there. |