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Arab terrorists were caught on camera as they rained a potentially lethal hail of rocks on Israeli cars Thursday afternoon on Highway 60, which runs the length of Judea and Samaria. The terrorists, who carried out their attack near the community of Ofra in the Binyamin region of Samaria, were filmed by a crew of the company IS, which provides legal and security advising. As they captured the attack on film, the IS crew called security forces, and thanks to their actions and film evidence, the two terrorists were quickly apprehended.
IS CEO Ari Kaniel told Arutz Sheva on Friday "the crew acted under the clear guidelines of our offices, which is that the life and security of people comes before anything else." "Even though the crew was in the middle of work on an active case, the activities were immediately stopped and the crew started dealing with the rock throwers aided by security forces in the field.
I spoke with the crew right after the incident, and praised them for their fast and professional work," said Kaniel. It should be noted that rocks thrown at cars driving at a high speed can easily break windshields and inflict lethal damage, aside from potentially causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle and crash. There have been numerous lethal rock attacks, including the case of Asher Palmer and his baby son Yonatan who were murdered in 2011. Recently rock terror has been on the rise, as just on Thursday, the say day the rock throwers were filmed, a family in Jerusalem made a wrong turn into the Wadi Joz neighborhood and was set upon in a planned Arab ambush that nearly took their lives.
Over 130 police officers have been injured in Arab rioting in Jerusalem, according to police spokesman Asi Aharoni - who marked Ramadan as the "turning point" for the Holy City which saw a bloody descent into chaos in Arab neighborhoods two months ago. "Ramadan this year was particularly tense," Aharoni stated, in an interview with Channel 2 News. "[Tensions] culminated on the night of Al-Qadr" -- a reference to a Muslim holiday focused on atonement, prayer and celebration that took place on July 26 this year. On that day, he said, "there were 42 simultaneous reports of separate incidents, which saw the participation of dozens, even hundreds of people."
Four thousand (4,000) police officials were on patrol that night, he said, on high alert after rioting had begun to rise steadily since Ramadan began. By now, he said, "we have 600 arrests, 240 indictments filed, and it doesn't end there." Weapons against police have gotten deadlier, he added. While firework-launching has long been a common occurrence during the frequent Arab riots in Jerusalem, the rioters have begun firing large amounts of them at police at once, requiring police to respond with riot dispersal measures more frequently.
The phenomenon has led to the high number of police injuries, he said; of the 130 recorded injuries among police forces, at least thirty (30) were said to be from fireworks alone. Violence is spreading, he said, noting that the epicenter of Arab violence in Beit Hanina and Shuafat is now just the tip of the riot zone. Several of these areas were relatively peaceful beforehand, as well. "Beit Hanina used to be the Abu Ghosh of Jerusalem, but in light of these events many Jewish residents are afraid to return there," he said. Abu Ghosh, an Arab village outside of Jerusalem, is known for its relatively friendly population, and holds many Jewish wedding halls - even religious ones. Aharoni also noted the extensive damage from last month's firebombing of the Jerusalem light rail stations in Beit Hanina, which amounts to millions of dollars.
Source: Arutz Sheva
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