Fatah men charged with attempted murder of Israel cops, soldiers
East-Jerusalem residents allegedly alerted police of their intentions to increase potential casualty count.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Fatah East JerusalemTwo Fatah militants were charged with the attempted murder of Israeli policemen and Israel Defense Forces soldiers, allegedly alerting security forces of the attack beforehand, Army Radio reported on Thursday.
The two men, residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Ram, allegedly planned to storm the nearby Qalandiyah checkpoint with firebombs, as well as stab policemen and soldiers stationed there.
According to the indictment, the two Palestinian men also alerted the police of their intentions in order to increase the number of present forces and thus increase the number of potential casualties.
The State Prosecutor's Office had requested the court to remand the suspects for the duration of the proceedings against them.
Earlier this month, the head of a terror cell responsible for two 2008 Jerusalem murders was sentenced to two life sentences and 40 years.
The Jerusalem District Court convicted Mohammed Khalil Adnan Abu-Sneina, 21, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, with the murder of police officer Rami Zuari near the Shuafat refugee camp in early 2008 and the killing of Border Policeman David Shriki near the Old City's Lions' Gate in July of that year.
Abu-Sneina was also convicted of three counts of attempted murder and with conspiring to commit a crime.
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that gorgeous high cement wall , it became one of the most eye pleasing sight to me . It happened after I have seen blown up buses on streets of Jerusalem , and witnessed the blown up Sabbaro restaurant soon after , a few years ego . Ever since my taste for that wall became very refined and I hope it will go further and higher . Bless be the hand who built that wall . You see , tastes can not be discussed , they are widely weary .
The last time I looked there was an ugly concrete wall dividing Ram from East Jerusalem!
Since when attacking soldiers in the occupied territory is a crime under laws of war? Since when attacking army with perfidious "police" spray paint on their military jeeps is a crime under laws of war?
They're the ones that the left wants to give our land to.