|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/998413.html
Number of Israeli Terror Victims on the Rise
[Ha'aretz ] Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff - The Palestinian terrorist with a bulldozer, and his eastern Jerusalem neighbor, who murdered eight students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva four months ago, involved one person, something for which an early warning based on intelligence is almost impossible. When the murderer is a lone terrorist, with no infrastructure backing him, and not having spoken about it, it is hard to stop him. The Arabs of eastern Jerusalem carry Israeli identity cards, move about in the capital with no restraint, speak fluent Hebrew and do not raise suspicions. However, about 300 residents of the eastern part of the city have been arrested during the last eight years for their role in terrorism. Even if most of those killed this year have been victims of an individual's attack in Jerusalem and rocket and mortar shelling from Gaza, the statistics are troubling: 26 dead in six months. This number of victims is four times greater than last year.