“How will I explain to Lucy when she comes out of a coma what has happened to our two dear gifts Maia and Rina?” Israeli-British rabbi Leo Dee asked crying before the bodies of his two daughters, shot dead in the attack last Friday, and praying with his other three children and the whole country so that the doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem save the life of his wife in critical condition.
Thousands of people attended the funeral of sisters Maia (20) and Rina (15) held in the Kfar Etsion settlement. “You dreamed of traveling the world and now you are traveling to heaven. You are two flames that have not gone out. You will bring more light to the world. You have inspired and loved us. In return, we will love you forever,” said the father, asking for unity in a deeply divided country. “Right and left, secular and religious, we are all united in the face of the real enemy, the evil terrorism, of Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah…”.
Originally from London, this Jewish family immigrated to Israel nine years ago, settling in the Efrat settlement in the West Bank. “It is about a Zionist family who left Britain to live in Israel. In these difficult times, we are committed to helping them,” says the Efrat Council.
On Friday, the family was heading in two cars for a walk taking advantage of the Jewish holiday of Pesaj. At the Tamra crossing in the Jordan Valley, the vehicle the mother was driving was fired upon from another car carrying two Palestinians and swerved to the side of the road. Then one of them got out, walked up and fired at them again at close range. First aid teams arrived thinking it was an accident. They immediately understood that it was not. The car had bullet holes and 22 Kalashnikov bullet casings were found in the area. The father who was in another car also arrived at the scene.
The Army, the anti-terrorism unit of the Police and the internal security service are carrying out a search device focusing on the northern West Bank where the militias have their main stronghold. According to Palestinian sources, the used car was found this Sunday in Nablus, located in this area occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.
After this attack and the intentional run over by a Palestinian with Israeli nationality who murdered the Italian tourist Alessando Parini in Tel Aviv, Israel will increase the police force that will be reinforced by soldiers.
2,500 police officers were deployed this Sunday in Jerusalem, where tens of thousands of Muslims, Jews and Christians gathered in the Holy Places on the occasion of Ramadan (Mosques Esplanade), Pesaj (Wailing Wall) and Easter Sunday (Holy Sepulcher). ).
During the day, which ended without incident, 850 Jews visited the Temple Mount (Judaism) or Noble Sanctuary (Islam). The status quo allows visits by non-Muslims at agreed times and without praying. The Palestinians denounce that Israel intends to change the rules and warn that “Al Aqsa is in danger.” The Israeli authorities strongly deny this.
The escalation in recent days – which included the launch of projectiles from Gaza, Lebanon and Syria against Israel, which responded with airstrikes on three fronts (without casualties in both cases) – was motivated above all by the violent clashes in the Al Mosque Aqsa early Wednesday morning in which officers forcibly evicted Palestinians who barricaded themselves and closed off the compound. What happens in this place will determine in part if the area heads towards a tense calm or a full-scale confrontation.
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