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UNICEF Israel head condemns use of child terrorists
Encouraging children to carry out acts of terror is 'unadulterated child abuse,' says head of UN agency in Israel.

By Ari Soffer
First Publish: 2/4/2016, 5:53 PM

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Arab child waves knife during Gaza City march
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The head of the Israeli Fund for UNICEF (The UN Children's Fund) has condemned the culture of incitement which encourages children to carry out terrorist attacks, as "child abuse."

Jonny Cline, Executive Director of UNICEF's Israeli Fund, made his comments following this morning's attack in which two 13-year-old Arab girls stabbed a security guard in Ramle, central Israel.

While the pair were Israeli-Arabs, most other attackers - including children as young or even younger - have been residents of the Palestinian Authority. In this case as in previous attacks, the terrorists were inspired by ceaseless anti-Semitic incitement emanating from Palestinian terrorist groups and the highest levels of PA leadership.

"The exposure of these two children to the type and intensity of incitement and violence that would lead to this kind of act is unadulterated child abuse," Cline told Arutz Sheva.

"Every child is to be protected from exposure to violence. Every child. It is their right, and our responsibility."

UNICEF's main objectives are to fight for the rights and safety of children globally - rights which Cline lamented are being denied to children who are brainwashed by their own religious and political leadership.

"The two girls involved in today’s incident have had their childhood taken from them, have had their lives ruined, by those who have facilitated the acceptance of such behavior.

"No child is to be used as a tool for terror."
 
'palestinian' terror fascists deliberately burn Jewish holy books



Arson suspected in prayer tent fire
Law enforcement investigating locals' suspicions that a fire that burned several Torah books was deliberately started by a Palestinian

Anonymous individuals on Saturday night set fire to a tent containing Torah books next to the settlement of Karmei Tzur in Gush Etzion. No one was hurt, but the books were heavily damaged. Judea and Samaria District Police opened an investigation and said footsteps believed to belong to suspects led to the adjacent Palestinian town of Halhul.

According to locals, the tent serves as a place of prayer and other activities for the area's children. Karmei Tzur residents said arsonists had put the books in a pile and let them on fire. The tent overlooks the spot where the bodies of the three teenagers who were kidnapped and murdered in 2014 were found.

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'palestinian' poll finds drop in support for intifada amongst the invader entity


Less than half of Palestinians support a third intifada, compared to the 63 percent who supported it last month; poll also finds that Hamas would lose general Palestinian election.

According to the survey, conducted last week in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, only 42 percent of Palestinians support a third intifada, a sharp drop from the 63 percent who supported it in November.

However, the question that was posed to respondents focused on an intifada that has not yet erupted. Perhaps the intention is for an armed intifada similar to the second intifada.

According to the results of the poll, which covered some 1,200 Palestinians and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would win a presidential election.

About 36% of respondents said they would vote for Abbas, while 22% voiced support for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Another 56% of respondents said they favor the creation of the post of deputy president of the PA, compared to 30% who oppose the idea.

However, the poll also showed an increase in the number of Palestinians who possess a negative assessment of the performance of both Abbas and Haniyeh.

The previous poll conducted by AWRAD in 2015 showed that only 31% had a negative assessment of Abbas’s performance. The current poll, on the other hand, showed that the percentage of Palestinians who are dissatisfied with Abbas has risen to 35%.

As for Haniyeh, the proportion of Palestinians dissatisfied with his performance increased from 32% to 38% during the same period.

Abbas seems to be more popular in the Gaza Strip than Haniyeh – 46% compared to 20%.

About 79% of respondents said they were opposed to the dissolving the PA. Another 80% said they supported holding immediate presidential and parliamentary elections.

The results showed an increase in Fatah’s popularity in the Gaza Strip (46%), while in the West Bank it enjoys the backing of only 34%.

Poll shows sharp decline in Palestinian support for third intifada - Arab-Israeli Conflict - Jerusalem Post

Palestinian poll: Sharp drop in support for intifada - Israel News, Ynetnews
 
11-year-old boy stabbed in Ramla, reportedly by Arab man

Boy tells police an Arab man approached him on the street and asked him a question, then stabbed him in the back, moderately wounding him; 17-year-old suspect arrested
 
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Hezbollah tries to shift attention to the West Bank
BY DAVID DAOUD | February 5, 2016 | ddaoud@defenddemocracy.org | @DavidADaoud
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Israeli security forces announced last week their dismantling of a five-man terror cell from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, jihadists who were recruited by Hezbollah’s secretive Unit 133. The men were instructed to gather intelligence information on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) training facilities for attacks and prepare a bomb for use in a suicide operation against civilians. The foiled plot was Hezbollah’s latest attempt to stir up Israeli-Palestinian violence, exploiting the conflict to improve its tarnished image while bogging down Israeli forces in a battlefield far from its home base.

Hezbollah established Unit 133 in the early 2000s, to focus its operations on Israeli targets both domestically and across the Middle East and Europe. Unit 133 relies primarily on human intelligence activity, luring recruits with money. Due to the nature and purpose of the Unit’s activities, it does not exclusively draw on Shia Muslims for recruitment. Recruits are given broad security and military training, charged with recruiting new assets as well as intelligence collection, target acquisition, surveillance, reconnaissance, managing sources and establishing cover stories.

For its operations within Israel, the unit was tasked with recruiting intelligence assets and terror operatives from among Palestinians in the West Bank and Israel’s Arab citizens. To accomplish that, it turned to Lebanese drug dealers who work with Israeli-Arab smugglers.

Unit 133 has been linked to previous attempts, some unsuccessful, to carry out attacks within Israel. In April 2012, for example, it tried to smuggle 24 C-4 explosive devices, M-16 rifles and other weapons past Israel’s border with Lebanon through Israeli-Arab smugglers. The goal was to have one of the Unit’s cells within Israel use the materials to carry out a mass-casualty attack, but the attempt was foiled by Israel’s Shin Bet security services before they reached their intended recipients. Last summer, Israeli security forces arrested Hezbollah operative Hassan Khalil Hizran, a dual Lebanese-Swedish citizen, at Ben-Gurion Airport. Hizran was to report on the airport’s security procedures, recruit Israeli Arabs with ties to Israeli civilians or military personnel, and gather intelligence on military targets.

This newest cell, taken down last week, was put together and funded by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s son, Jawad. He instructed the men to recruit more Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, providing them with $5,000 to acquire the necessary weapons and materials for the intended attacks.

Israeli security officials said the cell hoped to reignite the months-long wave of Palestinian violence that has waned in recent weeks. Hezbollah likely hoped the attacks would be the catalyst for turning the violence into a real Intifada, or uprising, on par with the bloody Al-Aqsa Intifada of the early 2000s. Beyond simply killing Israelis, Hezbollah has much to gain from such a heightened level of violence.

For one, full-blown violence would refocus the ire of Sunni Arabs (particularly the wealthy Gulf states) on what they insist is the “central cause” of the Arabs – Palestine – and away from Hezbollah and its Iranian masters. Sparking another Intifada would also improve Hezbollah’s image on the Arab street, allaying some of the anger directed at it over its involvement in the Syrian civil war. It would allow Hezbollah to portray itself as primarily fighting Israel, while – unlike during the 2006 war – keeping the fight away from Lebanese soil.

Finally, if Israel were once again plagued with frequent Palestinian suicide bombings and large-scale attacks as in the early 2000s, the IDF would become bogged down again in counter-terror operations in the West Bank, severely reducing its ability to act against Hezbollah – either in Lebanon or Syria.

David Daoud is an Arabic-Language Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
 
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Terror victim's wife at funeral: 'You didn’t have a gun but you ran toward the attackers'

“You were a true hero,” Yael Weissman says of her husband Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, who tried to stop Palestinian stabbers in Thursday's West Bank attack.
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IDF Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman (R), his wife, and baby. (photo credit:IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)


Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, was killed trying to stop two Palestinian teenage terrorists from stabbing shoppers at a Rami Levy supermarket in the Binyamin region of the West Bank on Thursday.

At his funeral in Jerusalem early Friday morning, his wife Yael, described how they had been in another part of the store with their infant daughter Netta when the teenagers pulled out knives.

“You are a true hero. You didn’t have a gun, but still you ran [toward the attackers] without thinking twice,” said Yael in a tear filled voice, as she stood by her husband’s freshly filled grave in the Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery.

“I always knew that if something happened you would be the first person to respond,” Yael said.

Her husband of almost two years, who she called by his middle name of “Yanai” had been a combat sergeant in the IDF’s Nahal Brigade. He was only able to be with his family on weekends.

“Yesterday we went shopping so that when you returned to the army on Sunday you would know that Netta and I had everything we needed and that nothing was missing.

“You were always like that. Whenever you were with us during the weekends you did everything you were not able to do during the week when you were away,” Yael said.

At times, as she stood at the podium, she cried so hard it was difficult for her to speak, particularly as she recalled their last moments in the Sha’are Binyamin industrial park outside of Jerusalem, where Rami Levy is located.

“We came to the supermarket. We were together. You were worried the whole time about Netta and made sure she stayed close to me.

“Then in one moment, everything happened. We heard there had been a stabbing and even though you did not have any weapons on you, you ran to help without thinking twice.

“I waited for you to return to me and Netta, I waited for you to hug us and say that everything was fine and that you had succeeding in stopping the terrorists.

“We waited a long time and you did not return,” she said.

“People, who were as amazing as you were in thinking about others before themselves, helped me find you,” said Yael.

“I was not able to stop you and I am not sorry. If you had not raced there [to help], you would not be the Yanai that I know, the one I fell in love with.”

Tuvia Yanai had been stabbed in the upper part of his body as he tried to disarm the two 14-year old Palestinians who had come to the store from Betunyia, the nearby suburb of Ramallah were they lived.

Another shopper with a gun, shot and wounded the two teenagers, who are now being treated in two Jerusalem’s medical centers; Sha’are Tzedek and Hadassah Ein Karem.

Tuvia Yanai was also evacuated to Hadass Mount Scopus, where doctors tried to save his life for a number of hours, but the injuries were to severe.

An Israeli shopper who had been wounded by the terrorists was released on Friday from the Hadassah Medical Center on Mt. Scopus.

Yael told the hundreds of mourners who crowded around her at Friday’s funeral of the special relationship she had with her husband, who she had known for seven years first as a friend and then as the love of her life.

“Yanai, my beloved, who would believe that I would sit and write to you when you were no longer with me.

“That I would not be able to show you the letter, so that you could add it to our collection of correspondence,” Yael said.

“Our love was a very special thing. It didn’t matter how much we disagreed with each other or argued, we always did it respectfully,” she said.

The time he spent in the army away their home in the settlement of Ma’aleh Michmas each week had been hard, she said.

“Before we left for the store I hugged you and asked, ‘so, when will we be together like a normal family?’

“We were waiting for your release from the army.

We had so many plans. To fly, to trek, to work, to study, and most important of all, to be together,” Yael said.

Her husband was so focused and directed in his short life, that it was almost as if some part of him already knew how little time he had, she said.

“I want to thank you for every moment that we were together,” she said.

“Thank you for the best present you could have given me, our daughter Netta. I couldn’t ask for something more perfect. I promise that Neta will know who you were and how much you loved her. We will never part from you. You will always be with me. Even if I am not with you physically, we will to be apart.”

“Give me the strength to look Neta in the eyes and tell her that everything will be fine. I promise to take care of her as best I can. I am sorry that we did not have a chance to realize our dreams.

“I love you and I already long for you,” Yael said.

 
'palestinian' animal terrorist stabs Israeli man

A security guard in Ma'aleh Adumim’s only mall was seriously wounded in what police believe was a terror attack within the West Bank settlement located just outside of Jerusalem.

Police received a call at 1:15 a.m. on Friday regarding the victim. The forces that arrived at the mall found a man, age 47, with multiple stab wounds lying on the floor. The assailant had fled.

The victim was placed on a respirator and rushed into surgery at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem's Ein Kerem.

Israel police, Border police and the Shin Bet launched a manhunt for the alleged Palestinian assailant.

Israeli man seriously wounded in suspected terrorist stabbing in West Bank - Arab-Israeli Conflict - Jerusalem Post
 

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