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The attacker, killed by agents who were at the scene, also wounded a rabbi and two paramilitaries
A member of Hamas disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew killed one person and wounded three others at the Chain Gate, one of the gateways to the Esplanade of the Mosques, in the Old City of Jerusalem. The Police announced through their Twitter account that “the terrorist has been neutralized” by agents who were at the scene. Fadu Abu Shukhaydam, a 42-year-old imam, opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle and killed Eliyahu Kay, a 25-year-old immigrant from South Africa who worked as a guide in the Western Wall tunnels. He also wounded a rabbi and two Border Guard paramilitaries. Kay is the first Israeli civilian killed since the end of the last offensive against Gaza in May.
Hamas confirmed that the attacker was a member of the group in the Shuafat refugee camp and issued a statement declaring that “our martyr in Jerusalem spent his life preaching jihad. This heroic operation is a warning to our enemy and his government to stop occupying our land and put an end to the attacks on the holy places ”, alluding to the growing presence of ultra-nationalist Jews on the Esplanade of the Mosques.
The “martyr” of the Islamists is a “terrorist” for Israel. While in Gaza they distributed sweets to celebrate the operation, in Shuafat, the only refugee camp in the holy city, the security forces searched the house of Fadu Abu Shukhaydam and detained his daughter. “He was a member of Hamas, of the political branch, not of the armed branch,” revealed Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev on the Kan public channel, adding that “his wife left the country three days ago and his son also left the country. found abroad. It seems that the attack was premeditated.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennet called for “tightening” security in Jerusalem on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which starts in a week, and President Isaac Herzog, who is on an official visit to the United Kingdom, insisted on the need for “the international community to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.” A step that the British seem ready to take shortly since until now the political wing of the Islamist movement was not considered as such by London.
Islam teacher
Fadu Abu Shukhaydam had five children and was born and lived his entire life in the Shuafat refugee camp. He was a preacher and teacher of Islam in schools and since 2015 he was one of the most active religious in the fight to stop the growing presence of ultranationalist Jews on the Esplanade of the Mosques, according to profiles published by local media.
A few hours before picking up his semi-automatic rifle and heading to the Old City of Jerusalem, he opened his Facebook profile to say goodbye with a message that read: “God determines our destiny, although most people do not know it.”
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source https://pledgetimes.com/hamas-imam-disguised-as-ultra-orthodox-jew-kills-person-in-jerusalem/
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