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Two weeks ago, on the eve of the 18th of Sivan, the child Noam Leibowitz was murdered in a shooting attack on the Trans-Israel Highway. Her brother and grandfather were injured in the terror attack. The terrorists, as may be recalled, managed to break through thick bars in a water duct, which was built into the lower section of the wall in order to prevent flooding in the rainy season. They sliced through the bars with pneumatic cutters, advanced about ten meters into the water duct, shot, murdered,and escaped back to Kalkilya. The mode of operation demonstrated that the terror attack had been preceded by careful preparation. The terrorists probably knew that there was no warning system beyond the wall. The nearby outpost was not manned. There were no electronic measures at the site.
The next day, two terror organizations, the El-Aksa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,Ahmed Jibril’s organization, issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the terror attack. The wording of the statement should be noted, as published by the France Press agency in Beirut: “A joint cell attacked a convoy of settler cars yesterday with light arms… (the family, it may be recalled, was a resident of Yemin Orde in the Carmel hills H.H.). One of the cars was directly hit, and those inside it were killed and wounded. The convoy of cars was on the road leading to the settlement of Kochav Yair, near the settlement of Eyal located on the Palestinian lands occupied since 1948, near the city of Kalkilya.”
In another report that appeared on the same day in the mouthpiece of the Palestinian Authority, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, it was written that “the occupation forces imposed a curfew on the city of Kalkilya, after Israel Radio announced that a settler was killed and two were wounded following shots at an Israeli convoy traveling on the road known as the Trans-Israel Highway, northwest of Kalkilya, near the settlement of Kochav Yair.” […]
This piece ran in haTzofeh on July 3rd, 2003
