JERUSALEM [JTA] — An axe-wielding Palestinian worker killed an Israeli boy and injured another in the West Bank.
The worker began attacking the boys, aged 13 and 7, as he ran with the axe through the community of Bat Ayin, located in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, shortly after noon Thursday.
Terrorist Murders Israeli Teen With Axe
JERUSALEM [JTA] — An axe-wielding Palestinian worker killed an Israeli boy and injured another in the West Bank.
The worker began attacking the boys, aged 13 and 7, as he ran with the axe through the community of Bat Ayin, located in the Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem, shortly after noon Thursday.
Shlomo Nativ, the teenager, died of his injuries. The younger victim was seriously injured and was being treated for head injuries in Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital.
“It is usually safe to walk around here,” a female resident of the community of 100 families told Israel’s Channel 2, her voice breaking as she said she knew the boys. “This is the first time that anything like this ever happened here.”
In fact, a Bat Ayin resident was stabbed to death in 2007 while walking near the settlement. In 2002, three residents were jailed for plotting to blow up a girls’ school in East Jerusalem.
The assailant struggled with a passer-by and was shot by one of the community’s security guards before fleeing, Ha’aretz reported.
There is no security fence around the community, apparently for ideological reasons.
Israeli security services were searching the area for the assailant and checking to see if he had any accomplices. Residents were asked to remain in their homes.
Both Islamic Jihad and the Martyrs of Imad Muginyeh claimed responsibility for the attack. Hamas called the attack a “natural reaction” to the “occupation,” a spokesman said.
Government spokesman Mark Regev condemned the attack as a “senseless act of brutality against innocents.”
tahrit
Only one in a million muslims are normal the’re all bloodthirsty animals, even the ones people say are moderate they all beleive the same thing. do you see jews running wild pilaging and killing muslims with an axe? anyone that has simpathy for those dirty arabs is a bit wacked.
I went to chevron and i must say id rather walk in back of an arab than in front,
bobby
I D F — you gotta get back into Gaza and West Bank and wipe it off the face of the map; AMALEK will live on and thrive like cockroaches unless it is wiped off forever!!!!! It is possible; The IDF has the sortee successive bombing needed
zev
In the old days every Pogrom comprised of blood thirsty “christian” mobs brandishing axes, torches, knives and everything else these guys use. The names change but the situation remains the same. We are in Galus and the Goy who holds the axe is acting on nothing but natural instinct. We cannot blame these hooligans any more then we can Titus or Paroh.
While they are barbarous villains, they are no more guilty of there acts then bears or sharks are. We are the fools for not utilizing the power we have of stoping them.
Let today’s parade be the beginning of the end. Vehee Sheumdah…
ceo
we must add mitvos in the name of these two precious gems who are now kedoshim in Gan Eden.
ADD MITZVOS
moshe
so sad, so scary! i just spent a shabbos in bat ayin. its seriously the most beautiful place in the world. the people living there are tzadikim!!! bb better not weaken his stance with the settlements!
May those of this child rise into the high heavens, and may the inured child have a full recovery bs”d
to ceo
The younger victim was seriously injured and was being treated for head injuries in Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital
mostafa
thats not good …. Kids are not and will not be part of this fight