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| Palestinians dismiss IS claim of Israel policewoman killing |
| 2017-06-19 |
| [DAWN] Palestinian bad boy factions on Saturday dismissed a claim by the bad boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group that it was behind the fatal stabbing of an Israeli policewoman in Jerusalem saying the assailants came from their ranks. The Israeli security services also raised doubts about the veracity of the IS claim -- its first for an attack in Jerusalem -- which came with the jihadists facing defeat in their Iraq and Syria bastions. Three Paleostinians attacked officers just outside the walled Old City in annexed east Jerusalem late on Friday before being rubbed out by security forces, Israeli police said. In an online statement, IS said jihadist fighters had targeted a "gathering of Jews", warning that "this attack will not be the last". But Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the Paleostinian Islamist group that runs the Gazoo Strip, dismissed the claim, saying the attackers had come from among its own ranks and those of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP). The assault took place as tens of thousands of Paleostinians held night prayers at the nearby Al Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest site, on the third Friday of Ramazan. According to police, two assailants opened fire on a group of officers who returned fire, and a third stabbed the border policewoman a short distance away before being shot. Policewoman Hadas Malka, a 23-year-old staff sergeant major, was taken to hospital at death's door and later died of her wounds. Four other people were maimed in the incident, including two Paleostinians from east Jerusalem and one from the West Bank city of Hebron.Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... said the IS claim was an attempt to "muddy the waters", adding that the attack was carried out by "two Paleostinians from the PFLP and a third from Hamas". The killing was "a natural response to the crimes of the occupier," he said, echoing the language used by Hamas after other recent attacks against Israelis. A front man for Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said it was "impossible to corroborate (the IS claim) at this point." The Israeli army said the assailants appeared have acted independently, like many of the attackers in a wave of unrest that has rocked Israel and the occupied territories since October 2015. |
| Posted by:Fred |