11-month-old Hadas Keizler was wounded this morning by a rock thrown at her mother’s car by a Palestinian attacker at the Yitzhar Junction in the northern West Bank (Samaria) region.
Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims and commemoration of the bestowal of the Koran on Muhammad, is also a month of heightened terror alerts. ISIS has marked this year’s Ramadan, which began on June 19, by perpetrating a trio of attacks in France, Tunisia, and Kuwait.
Though attacks have been less large-scale or “spectacular,” this year’s Ramadan has seen heightened terror activity in Israel as well.
Along with many failed or thwarted attacks, successful attacks on Israelis have included the execution-style fatal shooting of a man hiking in Samaria; the stabbing and serious injury of a border policeman in Jerusalem; the fatal beating by a group of Palestinians of a 70-year-old man in Rehovot in central Israel; the stabbing and wounding of a female soldier, by a female Palestinian, in Bethlehem; and a shooting attack on a car in Samaria that killed one man and wounded three other people.
Ironically, this year’s Ramadan began with conciliatory gestures by Israel, including allowing larger numbers of Palestinians to enter Israel from the West Bank and larger numbers to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. By now, with the spike in terror, most of the gestures have had to be revoked.
(Photo: Shomron Residents Council)
