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Controversy is growing over the execution of an Israeli civilian by an army member who had just killed two Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem on Thursday, November 30. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu simply claimed that “it can happen.”
On Thursday morning, November 29, while a fragile ceasefire still prevailed in Gaza, the Namer brothers, two Palestinians, killed three Israelis at the Givat Shaul intersection in northern Jerusalem in an attack that Hamas later claimed. It could have been worse: this intersection is full of people. But just minutes after the shooting began, a civilian and two Israeli soldiers called off the attack.
Israeli social networks congratulate them throughout the day. On the very fringes of the Israeli right, decency makes it difficult to hide their joy: not only does this reinforce the theory that Israelis must arm themselves, but one of the soldiers also proudly claims to be “the young people of the Hills” , the shaggy, excitable teenagers who represent the violent vanguard of the settlement movement. 25-year-old soldier Aviad Frija lives in Ahiya, a small Israeli settlement between Nablus and Ramallah. This conquest of Shiloh, a biblical site that has become a small and growing city, is known for its violence against its Palestinian neighbors.
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