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Youths Arrested for Terror Attack near Hebron
IDF and ISA forces arrested two 17-year old youths for stabbing an Israeli man to death. The security forces took them in several hours after the body was found in the village of Beit Ummar, south of Bethlehem.
February 26th, 2007
BACKGROUND INFORMATION Provided by IDF Spokesperson's Office
Two Palestinians confessed last night's murder of Israeli citizen.
In a joint IDF and ISA operation, the two Palestinian suspects of the murder of the Israeli civilian yesterday evening were arrested in the following hours. The two are Mudar Mussa Ahmed Abu Dia and Mussa Adam Salem Ah'lil.
In their investigation, the two admitted that the motive for the murder was based on religious grounds.
Yesterday evening, February 25th 2007, the body of Erez Lebanon, a resident of the Israeli community of Bat Ayin, was found stabbed in a wadi near the community. Erez Lebanon was father to three children.
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According to intelligence information indicating the involvement of the two Palestinians in the murder, IDF and ISA forces arrested them several hours after the body was found, in the village of Beit Ummar, south of Bethlehem.
The two murderers, about 18 years old, residents of the village of Safa, near the village of Beit Ummar, were taken for questioning by security forces.
In searches in the village of Beit Ummar by IDF forces earlier today, the burnt vehicle of the murdered Israeli citizen was found, and transferred to the Israeli Police.
In their investigation, the two confessed the murder. They claimed of previous planning, which included preceding patrols in the area of the attack.
On the day of the attack, the two left their village armed with knives. As they spotted the victim praying; as he prayed less than 200 yards from his home, they ambushed and stabbed him to death.
Hebron has been a focal point of terrorist activity and general harrassment always much as another recent report describes:
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15 year old girl attacked by Arab woman
Reported by the Jewish Community of Hebron
February 24, 2007
A 15 year old Hebron girl was attacked this morning by an Arab woman, who hit her and threw her glasses to the ground. A Canadian 'anarchist' named Jacob Kornblum also attacked the girl and assisted the Arab attacker to escape. Following issuance of a complaint tonight, the two attackers were arrested by Hebron police for interrogation.
Hebron's leadership demands that the attacking foreigner from Canada, together with other anarchists in Hebron, be immediately deported from Israel. Their provocative activities and incitement against Hebron's Jewish community cause tremendous tension, are dangerous, and could easily lead to bloodshed.
(The Jewish Community of Hebron; POB 105 , Kiryat Arba-Hebron 90100
email: hebron@hebron.org.il
Jews are frequently stopped and questioned by security forces on the complaint of Arabs and in the event of a real conflict, the Jewish side is automatically seen as the "instigators", no matter what the facts turn out to be. It is a mark of the extreme left's intentional or opportunistic use of these thugs (intentionally or passively) that keeps forgeign trouble-makers such as these from being summarily deported.
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