Israel. Everyday massage
Today's Israel is like a pot that has been placed on a blazing fire. The role of firewood in this fire is played by Syria and Iraq, which spread waves of tension throughout the entire region.
There are no objective prerequisites for the aggravation of the internal situation at this particular moment. But both sides speak with some doom about the practical inevitability of a new Palestinian uprising - the intifada.
Tensions began to rise in September around the binational Temple Mount in Jerusalem and resulted in periodic clashes between Arabs and Jews. But by the end of the month it seemed that it had begun to subside and a new round of conflict could be avoided.
These expectations were not destined to be met. On October 1, a brutal terrorist attack occurred - a car with a family of religious settlers was shot in an ambush, young parents were shot at point-blank range by militants, and four children survived literally by a miracle.
One of the killers, in a fever, shot the other in the arm, and they were forced to retreat from the crime scene. Thanks to this, the entire group was soon detained.
These events again heated the situation, and since then the tension has been growing every day. Thanks to the vigilance and professionalism of the Israeli intelligence services, such terrorist attacks using firearms or explosives do not happen often in Israel, but the Palestinians are waging an almost total war using stones, sharpening points and their own cars.
Here is a chronicle of incidents just for today:
On the morning of October 8 in Jerusalem at the tram stop on Bar Leva Street in the Giwa Tsarfatit neighborhood. A 19-year-old Arab, later revealed to be an Israeli citizen, stabbed a 25-year-old religious Jew, who was hospitalized in serious condition. The attacker was captured.
15:00 on Menachem Begin Street in Tel Aviv, not far from the Kiriya military base, an Arab hit a female soldier with a sharpener and slightly injured her. In addition, three more people were injured at his hands before a military pilot who happened to be at the crime scene shot him with his personal weapon. According to preliminary data, the attacker was a resident of East Jerusalem with Israeli citizenship.
In the photo - the same pilot who destroyed the attacker
15:20 on Shimon HaTzadik Street, an Arab threw an empty bottle at the Jews, they reported the attack to the police, and the thrower was detained.
At 16:40 in the Sheikh Jarrah quarter, an Arab driving a car tried to ram Israeli soldiers, but was detained. There were no casualties.
16:00 in Hebron, a 25-year-old Jew received a moderate stab wound. He managed to independently get to Kiryat Arba where he managed to find help. The attacker fled.
19:15 on Arlozorov Street in Afula, not far from the Aroma cafe, an IDF soldier was moderately stabbed, according to media reports, “the terrorist was neutralized by police and civilians who witnessed the attack.”
As of 19:30, in less than a full day, 12 Jews were wounded by bladed weapons and stones used by Palestinians. And such statistics over the past week are not something out of the ordinary.
Visiting the site of the attack in Tel Aviv, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan said: “I urge all citizens who have weapons to keep them with them at all times. We must make sure that any terrorist knows that he will not escape alive."
It is worth noting that all these incidents are regarded as terrorist attacks in Israel, although at first glance this seems unexpected.
It is interesting that in the Russian Federation, where, like in Israel, there is an armed Islamist underground, attacks with knives or traumatic weapons also occur, but they are usually classified as hooliganism.
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