Palestinian Authority’s Lies About Stabbing Terror Exposed by Footage of Attack

Despite the fact that footage of a recent terror attack clearly shows two Palestinians ambushing Israeli officers in a stabbing attack that left one officer seriously wounded, the Palestinian Authority broadcast outlandish lies about the incident.

By Itamar Marcus and Maurice Hirsch, Adv., Palestinian Media Watch

On Thursday afternoon, two 14 year old Palestinians exited the Temple Mount and immediately stabbed and attempted to murder an Israeli policeman. Video footage shows the attack, during which the wounded policeman falls to the ground, in addition to the quick response of the other policemen who shot the two terrorists before they could continue stabbing the fallen policeman or others.

As soon as the terrorists fell to the ground, one policeman is seen raising his hand signaling to the others to stop shooting. The entire terror attack lasted only a few seconds, and left one officer wounded and one terrorist dead immediately, while the second terrorist died later of his wounds.

Notwithstanding the video footage, official Palestinian Authority (PA) TV totally ignored the terror attack and referred to “children” being shot and “summary execution,” as if these were innocent “children.” In addition, the would-be murderer was called a “martyr,” which Palestinian religious leaders have repeatedly explained represents the highest achievement that can be attained by a Muslim.

Ignoring the circumstances, PA officials then used the event to condemn Israel for arbitrarily closing the Temple Mount in an attempt to inflate hatred of Israel.

The presenter on PA TV claimed, “The occupation authorities are continuing to hold the body of child Martyr Nassim Mukafih Abu Roumi (i.e., the terrorist who stabbed and wounded one Israeli), while the arrest of young Hamouda Al-Sheikh from the town of Al-Eizariya east of occupied Jerusalem continues (i.e., Abu Roumi’s accomplice, who later died of his wounds). The occupation police shot them next to the Chain Gate [of the Temple Mount].”

Abu Roumi’s father further embellished the story, lying: “They could have overpowered them in the first moment, because the army is trained. Seven soldiers came, lay them on the ground, and shot them several times – a summary execution that the Israeli forces commit against our children within Jerusalem.”

The PA often claims that Palestinian terrorists who are killed in the course of attempting to carry out a terror attack were “summarily executed” by Israel.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Supreme Shari’ah Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash further fueled the animosity against Israel when he condemned the immediate Israeli response to the event – temporarily closing the Temple Mount for a number of hours – without mentioning the circumstances of the decision and called for Muslims worldwide to mobilize:

“The fact that the Israeli occupation forces closed the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is a declaration of war against Islam and the Muslims… Al-Habbash called ‘on the Muslims worldwide to mobilize and come to the Al-Aqsa Mosque to carry out Ribat there and defend it alongside their Palestinian and Jerusalem brothers, as the Al-Aqsa Mosque is the First Direction of Prayer of all of the Muslims and not only of the Palestinians, to whom Allah has granted the honor of guarding and defending it,'” reported WAFA, the official PA news agency.

An additional report in WAFA claimed that “witnesses said Israeli police and a Jewish settler opened fire at the Palestinians after they allegedly came under attack.”

Needless to say, claiming that Israel carries out extra-judicial killings of Palestinians, who in reality were killed while attempting to carry out terror attacks, serves to further inflate the daily hatred of Israel that the PA preaches. The hatred is compounded and intensified when the terrorists are minors.

Similarly, when the PA suggests that Israel arbitrarily closes the Temple Mount, by failing to give any reasoning behind the Israeli decision, the PA is intentionally trying to infuriate the Palestinian population and possibly even promote violence as it did just last week.

It’s worth noting that one of Israel’s foremost security commentators also recognized that this attack was not conducted in a vacuum.

Rather he said in a tweet that it was to be expected that after the murder of Dvir Sorek there would be other copycat murderers and the sermons of the Muslim Feast of the Sacrifice holiday (that took place last week) which inflamed the situation and caused the attack of the two minors and another ramming attack on Friday, in which two people were injured.