Nadene Goldfoot
As many as 19 Israelis and foreign workers have been murdered in Israel in less than 2 months with 3 of them just yesterday during Israel's Yom Ha'atzmaut Celebration of Israel Independence Day. Israel is 74 years old and this is how we remember each year, it seems like, attacks continuing from those who oppose our existence. This attack was done by one who fired a rifle while the other attacked people with an axe or a knife, police said.
Israeli police and medics at the scene of the attack in Elad on Thursday. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty
The latest was the use of knives in the attack on 3 people in the city of Elad.
El'ad, also spelled Elad, is a city in the Central District of Israel. It was built in the 1990s for a Haredi and to a lesser extent Religious Zionist Jewish population. Located about 25 kilometres (15.5343 miles) east of Tel Aviv on Route 444 between Rosh HaAyin and Shoham, it had a population of 48,763 in 2019. It's just a little less than Aloha in Oregon with 54,347 population.
The distance between Tel Aviv and the border of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is 48 kilometers or 29.8258 miles. It's like driving from Portland, Oregon to Multnomah Falls or the town of McMinnville. We can drive 21 miles in 31 minutes from Portland. 30 miles away would take about 40 minutes. I'd say that Judea and Samaria are very close to Tel Aviv and Elad is within Israel's border but even closer ! They needed a heck of a lot more protection from these blood-thirsty attacks.
"Three people have been killed and at least four more injured in the central Israeli town of Elad, in the latest in a spate of street attacks that have sent tensions soaring in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent weeks.
Israeli forces have launched a hunt for two Palestinian suspects, backed by a large deployment of security personnel, helicopters, drones and roadblocks. Police said the suspects were 19 and 20 years old and came from the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Jenin is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank(Samaria). It serves as the administrative center of the Jenin Governorate and is a major center for the surrounding towns. In 2007 the city had a population of approximately 40,000 people, whilst the Jenin refugee camp had a population of 10,000.
Medics described a horrific scene in Elad, an ultra-Orthodox town near Tel Aviv. Israeli media identified those killed as Yonatan Havakuk, Boaz Gol and Oren Ben Yiftah, three fathers in their 30s and 40s who together are survived by 16 children. Funerals will be held on Friday.
Prior to Elad, Palestinians and members of Israel's Arab minority had killed 15 people, including three police officers and a security guard, in attacks in Israel and the West Bank that have mostly targeted civilians.
Israel has responded with arrest raids in Palestinian towns and villages which have often sparked clashes and brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of the year to at least 40.
Ultra orthodox Jews are not into killing, attacking others, etc. They spend a lot of time studying the Torah (Old Testament) and praying. To attack one of them is to attack the mildest of Jews, in my opinion, the people more likely to invite you to dinner, not to harm you. People who attack them are nothing but bullies, killers for sure.
Police said the incident appeared to be a terror attack. Do you think???
When I lived in Israel from 1980 to the end of 1985, the streets were always full of soldiers on their days off, milling around, shopping, etc like the rest of us, I figured, but always carrying their rifle. They were ready for whatever might attack us. What has happened to this? Isn't it still happening? It never bothered me to see armed soldiers, but was a big comfort.
Mahmoud Abbas of the PA said he disapproved of the attack. However, the PA does all kinds of things to instigate such attacks, even paying murderers when they are imprisoned for these very acts! It's sickening how readers outside the community can be hi-jinked into thinking that they are caring people.
Resource:
Israel AM
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/05/middleeast/israel-terror-attack-elad-intl/index.html
https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Tel-Aviv/West-Bank-Palestine#:~:text=The%20distance%20between%20Tel%20Aviv%20and%20West%20Bank%20is%2048%20km.
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