Breaking: Palestinian gunman 'kills three Israelis' in West Bank

[Solomon2]

'I can't believe this,' cries out brother of slain security guard
Staff Sergeant Solomon Gavriya was wounded in a stabbing attack a year ago but insisted on returning to service; security guard Youssef Ottman kept watch for both residents and laborers in Har Adar; Arish took an extra shift to save money for school. These are the stories of the Har Adar attack victims.
Ynet reporters|Published: 26.09.17 , 15:49


In October 2016, Staff Sergeant Solomon Gavriya suffered minor wounds in a stabbing attack near Mevaseret Zion. A year later, he was on the scene of the Tuesday terrorist attack in Har Adar, where he was fatally shot by Nimer Jamal along with two other security personnel stationed there.

The two other casualties in the attack were civilian security guards Youssef Ottman, 24, of Abu Ghosh and Or Arish, 25, of Har Adar.




Dozens congregated near the Gavriya family home in Be'er Yaakov to express their condolences to the family.

"He was wounded in the (previous) attack, recuperated and was back on track. He was injured in the neck, but demanded to return to his friends. We never got to see him return to civilian life," said Baruch Bugla, one of the leaders of the city's Ethiopian community

"He grew up in the city and was an extraordinarily apt pupil. He had a huge heart and was his parents' firstborn child, and brother to a sister who's also a soldier and two little brothers. What happened today is both our fate and policy. We're willing to pay the price," he affirmed.



Staff Sergeant Solomon Gavriya (Photo: Israel Police Spokesman's Unit)

Sarah Adamsu, a friend of the family who had known Gavriya since he was a child, also spoke about him. "He was a special boy, and I could tell you so much about him, but it's just too difficult. I know the family, we're friends, and I grew up with his brothers and know him very well too. His family is humble and special. You could write books about it. His father brought his little brother to the daycare center where I worked, and as soon as we got word of the attack I just ran out. After the first attack, his family begged him not to go back, but he loved the service and it was in his blood," she said.


Outside Gavriya's home (Photo: Shaul Golan)

The head of the Be'er Yaakov Council, Nissim Gozlan, talked about Gavriya as well. "He was injured in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Seam Zone just a year ago, but insisted on going back to the Border Police to defend the country only two months later. He was the salt of the earth, a true patriot," he recounted.



Scenes outside the Gavriya family home in Be'er Yaakov (Photo: Shaul Golan)

The commander of the company Gavriya served in, Superintendent Moshe Davush, arrived at the family's home to pay his respects. "We were conducting routine security measures in Har Adar. The team (at the checkpoint) recognized something off about the suspect, who then produced a gun and fired. Unfortunately, one of my soldiers was killed along with two security guards. What aroused suspicion initially was the terrorist was wearing a jacket and acting oddly," he elaborated on the incident.

"The Border Police has a wonderful array supporting our troops on the ground, who tirelessly carry on their work and will receive all of the support to continue doing so. I'm here at the family's home to support them. (Gavriya) served under me for 18 months and was an exemplary combat soldier who was extremely modest. Only a year ago, he prevented harm from coming to Jerusalem residents by stopping a terrorist attack with his bare hands. Despite his injuries, he insisted on returning to a combat role in the Jerusalem area," he added.



Relatives and friends outside the Gavriya family home in Be'er Yaakov (Photo: Shaul Golan)

'It's time to make peace'

The attack also claimed the life of Youssef Ottman. Ottman's cousin was murdered in a 1997 terrorist attack in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market. Issam Ottman, Youssef's father, said his son was familiar with the terrorist who took his life.

"He would always help people without hesitation. The person who murdered him is not a human being," he said.



Security guard Youssef Ottman

"Youssef held that security detail by himself. Just as he kept watch for the residents of Har Adar, he kept a watchful eye on the laborers working there. He was a combat soldier and was discharged with distinction. I wouldn't wish this on any father, on any man who brought his children up to choose life," he lamented.

One of Ottman's relatives chose to attack the Palestinian government in Ramallah. "I blame the Palestinian Authority, which doesn't want peace with Israel. The citizens end up paying the price. It's time to make peace so we can live safe, comfortable lives," he demanded.



Ottman's bereaved family

'Everybody loved Or'

Family and friends gathered at the Arish family home, and found it difficult to come to term with the news. "He should have worked the evening shift, but requested a morning shift as well so he could save up enough money for school," said a neighbor leaving the family home.

"His mother is crying and is in total disbelief. She cried out that she was about to bury her son. The father is completely shattered. He spoke to him just last night," she added.



Security guard Or Arish

As Arish's younger brother left the family home on Tuesday, he was crying and yelling "I can't believe this" into his phone.

Yaakov Hayun, Or's uncle, eulogized him. "He was a special boy. Served in the paratroopers. After his release, we tried finding a direction for him in life and he started a security course and started working in the field several months ago. He was a charming boy everyone loved," he said of his murdered nephew.

Avi, Or's best friend, texted Or's sister Lital. "Where are you? Give me an update," he asked her.



The text message exchange between Arish's friend and his sister

A few minutes later, Lital replied with only a word: "(he was) Killed."

Itay Blumenthal, Hassan Shaalan, Elisha Ben Kimon and Yishai Porat contributed to this report.

 

[313ghazi]

The loss of any human life is a tragedy, but what can you expect when you occupy peoples homes and oppress them on a daily basis under the guise of security?

 

[Solomon2]

Terrorist sends apologetic message to wife minutes before attack
Nimer Jamal sends Facebook message to wife minutes before leaving for Har Adar attack, apologizing for being 'poor husband' and asking her to take care of their children; Jamal reportedly struck her, prompting her to flee to Jordan.
Liad Osmo|Published: 26.09.17 , 12:49

Only minutes before embarking to Har Adar, where he committed a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of three Israelis, Nimer Jamal sent a Facebook message to his wife, asking her to share it on his own profile to "silence (her) conscience."

An initial inquiry into the attack uncovered Jamal suffered from severe personal and family issues, including domestic violence.

He was embroiled in a marital spat with his wife after reportedly physically assaulting her. She fled to Jordan several weeks ago, leaving him with the couple's four children.

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  The Facebook message Jamal sent his wife
  
  Only minutes before the attack, Jamal sent his wife a message on Facebook Messenger, apologizing for what he was about to do.
  
  "Share this message on my profile to silence your conscience. You were a good wife and a merciful mother, whereas I was a poor husband in the way I treated you. I say this with intact faculties: what you see tomorrow has nothing to do with my wife, and I provide her with the fullness of her rights. I beg your forgiveness and ask you to raise our children," he wrote her.
  
  In another Facebook posting, also made just before the attack, Jamal said he "feared no one but Allah."
  
  
  
  The terrorist and one of his sons
  
  
  Jamal arrived at a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Har Adar on Tuesday morning, where two civilian security guards were posted with two Border Policemen stationed several meters behind them. Jamal drew his weapon and started firing, killing one of the Border Policemen and the two security guards. He was struck by fire returned from the officers and was killed.

 

[Jugger]

Give us a path to Kashmir, will end the problem within a month. No compliment

Not a very good idea, from 1989 to 2017 Indian armed forces have killed approx 30,000 militants in Kashmir.
So I don't think you and your friends can end the problem in a month.
As for this attack, RIP to the killed including the attacker.
I still think Israelis should have chosen Madagascar instead of Middle East when they had the chance.

 

[Solomon2]

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they happen.

At Gavriyah funeral, Ethiopian-Israeli MK lauds ‘one of our great heroes’

At Solomon Gavriyah’s funeral, Knesset member Avraham Neguise (Likud) says that today the people of Israel and the Israeli-Ethiopian community “lost one of our great heroes.”

“A year ago when he was injured in another terror attack, he didn’t give up in his mission to protect our homeland. He came back to protect our people. And today, he and his friends gave their lives for that mission. We will always remember you,” Neguise says in Hebrew before delivering a eulogy in Amharic.

— Raoul Wootliff

6:06 pm
Gavriyah’s sister tries, fails to delivery eulogy at his grave
Solomon Gaviryah’s sister begins a eulogy but has to stop and be escorted away by family members, overwhelmed by emotion.

“You were the pride of our family. You were an inspiration to all of us. I don’t know how we can go on without you,” she says through tears before breaking down.

— Raoul Wootliff

13min ago
Hundreds gather in Arab town of Abu Ghosh to bury Youssef Ottman
Several hundred mourners attend the funeral of Youssef Ottman, who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist while guarding the entrance to the nearby West Bank settlement of Har Adar this morning.

The ceremony in the small Arab town of Abu Ghosh was attended by a number of border policemen who knew Ottman and worked with him in Har Adar.

The ceremony was conducted in Arabic and English by Abu Ghosh Mayor Issa Jaber.

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev spoke at the funeral, praising Ottman as a protector of lives and calling the Palestinian who killed him was a taker of lives.

“Two men went to work this morning. One for life, one to save lives, and one for death, who went to take life away,” she said.

“We have no tolerance for people who take part in cowardly terror attacks,” she added, noting that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared the house of the attacker would be demolished.

Regev noted Ottman had been a combat soldier, and said he would have won “a fair fight.” But the terrorist, she said, had taken advantage of the fact that Ottman knew him, and was able to get up close before drawing his gun and killing him.

“They must choose: terror or making a livelihood,” Regev said of the Palestinians.

Opposition leader MK Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union), also at the funeral, called Abu Ghosh “a model of peace,” noting Jews, Christians and Muslims all live peacefully in the small town and its environs.

— Dov Lieber

25min ago
Gavriyah’s girlfriend weeps for ‘my hero’
Batya Cohen, Solomon Gavriyah’s girlfriend, eulogizes the Border Police officer as he is buried in his hometown of Be’er Ya’akov:

“My babe, I can never express how much I love you. The love of my life. My life.
Last night you fell asleep on the phone to me because you had guard duty in the morning.
I couldn’t believe what I saw on the news this morning.
Now one ever taught me how to deal with this. I don’t know how to accept this. I can’t.
You were always the best, the best in your unit, the best of all our friends. The best person I knew. You never complained. You were a warrior. A hero. My hero. You fought to get into this unit. You were on your way to be in the Military Police but you fought to get where you were.
How can this happen? My beautiful 20-year-old babe.”

— Raoul Wootliff

31min ago
Police chief eulogizes Solomon Gavriyah as ‘one of our best officers’
Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich tells mourners at 20-year-old Border Police officer Solomon Gavriyah’s funeral that “our officers are on the front lines and over and over again put themselves in the line of danger to protect the people of Israel.

“The actions of the brave Border Police officers, Solomon at the front, prevented an even worse tragedy” during the shooting attack at Har Adar this morning, Alsheich says.

“In recent years, our best officers have been those killed in the line of duty and you, Solomon, as I have heard from your commanders and comrades, were one of them. You saw your work as a mission, and you were motivated in everything you did, and infected those who served with you” with that commitment, he adds.

“To the Gavriyah family, you are an inseparable part of the Border Police family. We reach out our open arms to you today and mourn together with you. The Israel Police today lowers its head in your honor, Solomon, and promises to continue your work. I salute you.”

— Raoul Wootliff

31min ago
Solomon Gavriyah’s body arrives at Be’er Yaakov cemetery
Cries and ululations are heard from family members of Solomon Gavriyah as his body is brought into the Be’er Yaakov cemetery.

Two of the mourners, apparently family members, require medical treatment after fainting in the heat and humidity amid intense emotions.

A leader of the Israeli-Ethiopian community in Be’er Yaakov opens the ceremony with a brief eulogy in Amharic.

— Raoul Wootliff

37min ago
Some 2,000 gather in Be’er Yaakov for funeral of border policeman
As many as 2,000 mourners gather in the Be’er Yaakov cemetery in central Israel for the funeral of Border Police officer Solomon Gavriyah, 20, who was killed in this morning’s terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Har Adar.

Most of those present are members of the Israeli-Ethiopian community, many from Be’er Yaakov where Gavriyah lived, or his colleagues from the Border Police.

Gavriyah was posthumously promoted to staff sergeant. Police said in a statement that he had joined the Border Police for his mandatory national service and had recently been serving as a policeman in the Jerusalem seam area along the boundary with the West Bank.

— Raoul Wootliff

 

[Rollno21]

Give us a path to Kashmir, will end the problem within a month. No compliment

,but who will tell about it because none will be going back

 

[Solomon2]

...what can you expect when you occupy peoples homes and oppress them on a daily basis under the guise of security?

This wasn't about "occupation". This was suicide-by-cop.

The murderer was a wife-beating house-cleaner with four kids. His wife had left him and he had reached a personal and maybe financial dead end. BUT as a dead "martyr" his family receives a hefty pension from the Palestinian Authority, courtesy of financial support from Western taxpayers.

No wonder the father of the dead Arab security guard blames the Palestinian Authority for this. Without their pay-for-slay policy the single dad could have had financial and personal assistance from social workers. Four lives would have been saved: the three dead Israelis AND their murderer.

 

[Timur]

that man maybe he lost some family members in brutal israeli attacks.. who knows what really happened besides some propaganda maschines

 

[Solomon2]

that man maybe he lost some family members in brutal israeli attacks..

You would have us believe that Jews would have hired him to clean house if that was the case?

...who knows what really happened besides some propaganda maschines

Trouble spelling all of a sudden? Don't you realize that such a statement insults the families of everyone who was killed, including the family of the murderer?

 

[RowdyRathore]

RIP No civilian should be targeted, what these people get by killed innocent civilians.?

We should arm residents of west bank.

@war&peace

Than expect the disintegration of Pakistan before its actual timeline.

 

[Dai Toruko]

Israel reaps what it sows. Violence begets violence.

 

[Solomon2]

Friends and family carry the body of Youssef Ottman during his funeral in Abu Ghosh, September 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Border Police attend the funeral of fellow officer Solomon Gavria, in Beer Yaakov, September 26, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

 

[jewishm]

for muslims its haram to make a suicide so alot of them going for dying in the name of allah so their families can get their monthly income from palestinan govermant and their name wil be praise by the pepole.
one of the officers the muslim one know him well and this piece of shit killed him also .

 

[Gothic]

Body of missing Israeli hiker located in Kyrgyzstan


https://www.timesofisrael.com/body-of-missing-israeli-hiker-located-in-kyrgyzstan/


ontact with Hila Livne, 22, had been lost since Sunday when she was separated from fellow traveler in Sari-Chalak nature reserve
By TOI STAFFSeptember 29, 2017, 4:22 pm 2

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  Israeli traveler Hila Livne, 22, was killed during a hike in Kyrgyzstan (Facebook)
  
  
  The body of a 22-year-old Israeli woman traveler who disappeared in Kyrgyzstan was found Friday, six days after the search for the tourist first began.
  
  The Israeli Clal Insurance rescue team located Hila Livne’s body in a gorge in the area where she had been hiking. According to reports in Kyrgyzstan, Livne had fallen from a cliff in the Sari-Chalak nature reserve and was killed.
  
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  Clal Insurance stated that its crews were currently working to retrieve Livne’s body and to bring her remains to Israel, Ynet reported.
  
  Contact with Livne was lost after a friend she had been traveling with fell during a trek and broke his leg. The fellow traveler was separated from Livne when he was evacuated to a nearby town by a pair of French tourists.
  
  Over the past week, hundreds of Israelis on social media helped organize and fund the searches for Livne, and her brother had flown out to Kyrgyzstan to take part in the rescue efforts as well.
  
  Livne’s family was notified of her death on Friday morning.
  

 

[Beny Karachun]

Coward, shoots people in their back, never relax around Palestinians. I hope the village the terrorist came from will be purged.