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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research & Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
ZOA urges U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides to condemn the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the PA President Mahmoud Abbas and PM Mohammad Shtayyeh’s infuriating condemnation of Israel, after Israeli forces and fast-acting Israeli citizens eliminated Palestinian Arab terrorists, preventing them from murdering still more innocent Israeli civilians. Arab terrorists murdered eleven innocent people in Israel and wounded other innocent Israelis in multiple stabbing, ramming, and shooting terror attacks throughout Israel last week. U.S. officials must take action against the PA, for the PA’s outrageous condemnation of Israel for killing Palestinian terrorists, by ending projects that free up monies for PA “pay to slay” payments to terrorists for murdering Jews.
On Thursday (March 31), a Palestinian Arab terrorist on a bus in Judea suddenly stabbed and seriously wounded an innocent Jewish civilian passenger with a screw driver, millimeters from the Jewish passenger’s heart. Another Israeli civilian passenger stopped the attack from becoming even worse by then shooting and killing the Arab terrorist. Official PA television promptly distorted and falsified these events, and accused “the occupation forces” of executing a “Martyr” “in cold blood.”
Early Saturday morning (April 2), Israeli security received information about an imminent massive attack by a Palestinian Arab terrorist cell affiliated with the PA ruling party Fatah’s Tanzim Brigades and the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The terrorist cell was responsible for multiple prior terror attacks, including one near Tulkarem. After surveilling the terrorist cell for several hours, an Israeli counter-terrorism unit attempted to peaceably arrest the Arab terrorists en route to their planned terror attack, near Jenin. The terrorists opened fire at the Israeli unit, wounding four Israelis, one very seriously. The Israeli counter-terrorism unit then fired back, killing the three Arab terrorists.
The terrorists’ vehicle contained an M16 assault rifle, at least two 30-round magazines (high-capacity military devices used for mass shootings), a grenade, and a last will from one of the terrorists planning “something big” to justify PIJ rocket attacks on Israelis. The terrorists will also be calling for more attacks on Israelis. PIJ later posted a video on social media of one of the terrorists reading the will before setting out on the planned mass attack. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the elimination of the terrorist cell “thwarted a ticking time bomb.” (See, e.g., “Major Terror Attack Foiled, 4 Soldiers Wounded, 3 Terrorists Dead,” by Hana Levi Julian, Jewish Press, Apr. 2, 2022; and “3 Gunmen Killed en Route to Attack, Police Say; 4 Israeli Troops Hurt in Clash,” Times of Israel, Apr. 2, 2022.)
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