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2021-11-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israeli forces raid neighborhood of J’lem attack terrorist, relatives said arrested
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[IsraelTimes] Minor festivities reported in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp during the operations; Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", gunman Fadi Abu Shkhaydam was a teacher in an East Jerusalem school
Israeli security forces raided the East Jerusalem home of a Paleostinian terrorist who shot one person to death and maimed others in an attack in the capital’s Old City earlier on Sunday.
According to Paleostinian media, several relatives of the gunman — Fadi Abu Shkhaydam, a Hamas member — were arrested by Israeli police in raids in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, including his daughter, brother and nephew.
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A spokesperson for Israel Police’s East Jerusalem division said that they could not confirm or deny the reports as operations were still ongoing.
Abu Shkhaydam’s wife and several of their children fled Jerusalem three days before the attack, reportedly traveling to Jordan.
Why flee beforehand? Did they know what he planned to do? Video footage from Shuafat showed Israeli security forces entering Abu Shkhaydam’s home, as members of his family yell at them. In at least one case, low-level festivities broke out as Israeli border guards arrested one of his relatives.
In addition to the raid on his home, Israel Police officers also visited the Islamic boys high school where Abu Shkhaydam worked, the Rashidiya school, which is located just outside the Old City.
A Jerusalem Municipality spokesperson confirmed that Abu Shkhaydam worked at the school and drew a paycheck from the city, although he was known to Israeli security services as a Hamas member.
"He was the best teacher. He never cursed anyone, or called anyone a bad name, except the Jews, may God burn them," Shuafat resident Mustafa Zaattra, a student of Abu Skhaydam, told al-Qastal.
Abu Shkhaydam was a member of Hamas’s political wing and served as a terror group member in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, according to Hamas. He had five children: three sons and two daughters.
"He constantly traveled to al-Aqsa to preserve the Moslem presence in that place. He taught at al-Aqsa, and had also taught Islamic religious law at several schools in Jerusalem," his uncle told al-Qastal, a local Arabic-language news site.
The Jerusalem front man refused to comment on how a known member of a terrorist group was permitted to work in a municipal school.
A very good question. In a radio interview, Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion similarly refused to comment on the matter, but verified that Abu Shkhaydam was indeed a municipal employee, teaching Islam in the school, despite being "known to security forces."
"We do what everyone does, we don’t do security checks," Lion told the Kan broadcaster on Sunday afternoon.
Huh? Everyone does not do security checks? Even here in America, which is not at war, every teacher must have a background check as far as I know, including with the police. On Sunday morning, Abu Shkhaydam, armed with a Beretta M12 submachine gun, shot up a group of Israeli men who were walking in the alleyways of the Old City near the Western Wall, by the Chain Gate entrance to the Temple Mount, killing one of them, seriously injuring a second and moderately wounding a third.
The man who was killed, Eliyahu David Kay, 26, was a tour guide at the Western Wall Heritage Foundation and was on his way to the site when he was killed. The two other maimed were ultra-Orthodox men who were making their way back from the Western Wall after morning prayers.
Police officers at the scene shot up Abu Shkhaydam, killing him.
One of the severely injured victims was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where his condition stabilized somewhat after emergency surgery but remained life-threatening, his doctors said. Another sustained moderate to severe injuries — from gunshots and from shrapnel — and was taken to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem.
Two coppers, aged 30 and 31, were also lightly maimed in the exchange, likely by shrapnel, according to the Israel Police. They were taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem for treatment but discharged a few hours later, the hospital said.
Public Security Minister Omer Barlev said the attack appeared to have been planned in advance.
"The terrorist was a member of Hamas’s political branch who regularly prayed in the Old City. His wife fled abroad three days ago, and he used standard weapons that are not commonly available in Israel," Barlev said in remarks at the scene of the attack.
Hamas quickly took responsibility for the attack, saying it was the "price" for Israel’s actions in Jerusalem.
"The message of the heroic operation is a warning to the criminal enemy and its government to stop the attacks on our land and our holy sites. [Israel] will pay a price for the iniquities it commits against al-Aqsa Mosque, Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and elsewhere," the terror group said.
On Friday afternoon — after his wife went abroad — Abu Shkhaydam shared an old Facebook post from 2014 discussing the Moslem Prophet Mohammed’s nighttime journey to the Temple Mount. The site is the holiest place in Judaism, as well as the third-holiest in Islam.
"The years go by and the words are confirmed... until God brings his command," Abu Shkhaydam added on Friday. 
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