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Police paint over mural in Umm al-Fahm honoring terrorists from city
2021-10-04
Follow up to this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] Law enforcement take action against depiction in Arab town of button men who carried out 2017 Temple Mount attack, killing two coppers.

Police reportedly covered up overnight Saturday-Sunday a mural in the city of Umm al-Fahm
...home base of the Islamic Movement — Northern Branch, the militant branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Israel. They’re fond of rioting on the Temple Mount and harassing the Jews who come to see it, among other “activist” behaviours...
that honored residents of the town who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Old City in 2017 that killed two coppers.

The move came after the Arab Israeli town’s mayor, Samir Mahamid, told police the wall on which the mural was painted was privately owned and therefore municipal authorities could not take action against it, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

"I received legal advice that said it is a private wall," Mahamid told Haaretz. "Therefore I explained to the police that I don’t have the authority to act, and asked them to decide what to do."

According to the report, police asked the owners of the wall to clean up the mural, and they refused.

The mural was painted in May amid deadly violence between the Arab and Jewish communities that accompanied fighting between Israel and terror groups in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, Haaretz said.

It memorializes three Arab Israeli men — Mohammed Ahmed Mafdal Jabrin, Mohammed Hamed Abed Eltif Jabrin and Mohammed Ahmed Mohammed Jabrin — who on July 14, 2017, shot up coppers Haiel Sitawe, 30, and Kamil Shnaan, 22, at an entrances to the Temple Mount, killing them. Other officers at the scene returned fire, killing the three attackers.

The mural depicts the perpetrators of the attack along with two other men, one of whom was identified as Ahmed Muhammad Mahameed, who attempted to stab a policeman in Jerusalem in 2018 and was rubbed out. According to Haaretz, the other is Muhammad Mahameed Kiwan, 17, who was killed by police during the May violence.

Under the men’s faces, the artist wrote, "Tomorrow’s smile will be wider," a quote from a Facebook post published by two of the Temple Mount attackers hours before the killings.

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