[IsraelTimes] Israeli security services documented only six terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in June ‐ the lowest figure on record for any given month in at least three years.
The tally constitutes a sharp drop in attacks in Jerusalem from May, when security forces documented 34 such incidents in the capital. The decrease was part of an overall drop of 40 percent in the number of terrorist attacks nationwide documented in June, when 220 such incidents were registered, the Shin Bet said in its monthly report published this week.
The nationwide figure for May was 365, the highest number in over two years of terrorist attacks on Israelis.
The first half of June was Ramadan, a Moslem month-long holiday when observant worshipers fast from sunrise to sundown. Ramadan usually features a spike, not a decrease in terrorist activity. Israeli security services massively increased their presence in Jerusalem in June to prevent disturbances.
Five people were maimed in the terrorist attacks in May, one of them moderately and the rest lightly. |