26-Sep-10: Another drive-by shooting attack tonight: Israeli couple shot

In the third such point-blank drive-by shooting in a single month, a woman in the ninth month of her pregnancy was wounded tonight by gun fire around 8.30pm. She was riding in a car driven by her husband (who was also shot) and the shooters were Palestinian Arab terrorists in another car. While none of the myriad so-called factions has taken credit yet, it's bound to be only a matter of time before one or another of them does. Hamas, the terrorist organization that rules Gaza with an iron fist, claimed credit for each of the two earlier attacks on Israeli civilians in their vehicles.

The location of tonight's terror attack was Highway 60 at Omarim Junction, in the Mount Hebron area. The couple, Neta Zucker and her husband Sharon, live in the nearby community of Tene Omarim, located just north of Meitar, a Beer Sheba suburb. Ynet says Neta is now in the operating room having a Caesarian section to deliver her baby.

Numerous rock-throwing attacks on Israeli vehicles were reported today (Sunday) in the Hebron sector. There's a general sense that we're going to see more 'heroic' actions like tonight's from Palestinian Arab gunmen in the coming weeks and months.

UPDATE Monday morning: We're very happy to report that the wounded mother gave birth last night to a healthy son.


source/link:  THIS ONGOING WAR

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

27-Sep-10: Responsibility for shooting attack claimed (no great surprises here)

While the head of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas loudly professes his commitment to the search for peace with the Israelis (in some places and at some times except when he does not), his executive branch colleagues remain loyal to tried-and-tested methods of a different sort.

Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and the Al-Quds Squads of the Islamic Jihad later claimed joint responsibility for [last night's attack], claiming in a statement that the attack was carried out to mark the 15th anniversary of the killing of Fatah founder Fat'hi Shkaki. [Source1 and Source2] 

The cowardly armed thugs of Al-Aqsa owe their alliegance to Mahmoud Abbas. For a while, four or five years ago, he and they went through a highly publicized charade of the Brigade members purportedly undergoing disarmament. As we say in Hebrew, אין דובים ואין יער  - no forest and no bears.

As we reported last night, this was the third drive-by shooting by Palestinian Arabs of Israelis in a month. Fortunately this time the injuries of the shooting victims were moderate and no lives were lost. In fact, a blessed new life was brought into existence [see "Woman survives shooting, gives birth to healthy boy"]