Why did he hide in a mosque? Western policymakers and analysts would likely offer pragmatic explanations and completely ignore the larger significance of his chosen hiding place. Islam is the one aspect of the conflict that supporters of the “Palestinian” jihad regularly cite as their primary impetus for the Israeli/ “Palestinian” conflict itself. Yet it is also the one aspect of the conflict that Western policymakers resolutely ignore. Find out the role it plays in the conflict in The Palestinian Delusion.
“Tekoa terror attack: Hamas-linked terrorist arrested as victim undergoes surgery,” by Maya Zanger-Nadis, Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2023:
The IDF on Sunday afternoon arrested a Palestinian terrorist who wounded three Jews in a shooting attack near Tekoa Junction in the West Bank earlier in the day.
Ammar al-Najjar, from Hebron and a member of Hamas who had been arrested by Israeli authorities in the past, fired from inside his own car toward the car with the three Jews while passing.
The Jewish driver, El-Roi Kapach, 36, was seriously wounded with a bullet lodged in his stomach and earlier Sunday it was unclear if he would survive. He had two of his daughters with him aged 14 and 9, who suffered non-life-threatening wounds from broken glass.
By later Sunday, doctors at Shaare Zedek Hospital had performed surgery to extract the bullet, Kapachi had recovered consciousness and was said to be far more stable.
Al-Najjar fired on Kapach’s car when Kapach slowed down near the intersection.
Initially, al-Najjr succeeded at escaping the scene.
However, several hours later, possibly based on a tip from Palestinians, he was discovered to be hiding at the al-Rabat Mosque in Bethlehem.
He and two others were arrested in a joint IDF and Shin bet (Israel Security Agency) operation.
The three Palestinians were arrested after Israeli forces surrounded the mosque and used crowd dispersal means to evacuate the mosque and clear the area….
Bexarkat says
I am confident that the PA, backed by CAIR will simply comply about how the Israelis desecrated the mosque with their “dirty feet.”
daniel says
the feet of a murderer is not dirty to you but they feet of them that went to arrest them is? he is even lucky he was captured alive, i would have shot him inside the mosque in his kidne.
Michael Copeland says
“Mosque means the place of war, the place of fighting. Out of the mosques wars should proceed. The Prophet had sword to kill people.”
Ayatollah Khomeini
“Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allah’s Prophet”
By Ali Sina, p.51
Sharon says
I’m impressed by the Israeli skill and coordination in apprehending the Hamas shooter. All prayers for the recovery of that father ??