Palestijnse politieman steekt IDF soldaat dood op Westoever

 

Dit soort incidenten vindt helaas nog met enige regelmaat plaats. Kolonisten wijten dit aan de verwijdering van vele checkpoints en roadblocks, de Palestijnen wijten het zoals alles aan de bezetting. Het is een slecht teken dat de dader volgens het Israelische leger een politieagent van de Palestijnse Autoriteit was. Ook dat is overigens niet de eerste keer.

 

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The Jerusalem Post
'West Bank terrorist who killed soldier was a PA officer'
BY JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV LAPPIN
10/02/2010 14:11


NCO stabbed while waiting in jeep at Tapuah junction, vehicle overturns as he tries to speed away; assailant lightly hurt as he is run over by security officer before being arrested.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168332


The terrorist who stabbed an IDF soldier to death at the Tapuah junction on Wednesday afternoon was a Palestinian Authority police officer, according to IDF sources.

The IDF soldier was named as First-Sgt. Muhammad Ihab Khatib, from the northern village of Marar. He served as a logistics non-commissioned officer in the Kfir Brigade.

Khatib was waiting in his Sufa jeep in a queue of traffic when he was stabbed in the chest through an open window.

In the soldier's attempt to speed away, the vehicle overturned.

The assailant was then run over and lightly hurt by a local security officer from the nearby settlement of Rehelim. He was then arrested by police.

Khatib was evacuated to Petah Tikva's Beilinson Hospital, where he succumbed to the knife wounds.

The Binyamin and Samaria Citizens' Committee blasted Defense Minister Ehud Barak after the deadly attack.

"It's no small wonder that when the defense minister is busy implementing the racist settlement construction freeze and with vain arrests of settlers, the terrorists and their accomplices are celebrating," read a statement from the organization. "Today, the settlement freeze monitors visited Kfar Tapuah while the terror attack took place right under their noses."

In December, after months of quiet in the West Bank, 45-year-old father of seven Meir Chai was killed in a drive-by shooting attack near the northern Samaria settlement of Shavei Shomron.

Chai was the fourth person killed by terrorists in the West Bank in 2009. In March, two traffic policemen, Senior Warrant Officers Yehezkel Ramazreger and Chief Warrant Officer David Rabinovitch, were shot dead in the Jordan Valley, and in April, 13-year-old Shlomo Nativ was stabbed to death near his home in the Gush Etzion settlement of Bat Ayin.