Remember: the Palestinian Authority is the “peace partner” that Obama keeps pressing the Israelis to shower with concessions.
“Three wounded in West Bank shooting attack, terrorist shot dead,” by Yaakov Lappin, Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2016:
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israelis at the Focus checkpoint near Bet El in the West Bank on Sunday morning.
Three Israelis were injured in the attack, and the terrorist was shot dead by security forces at the scene.
The terrorist approached the checkpoint in a vehicle, and opened fire from inside his car.
A Palestinian Authority security officer was the assailant who carried out the terror attack, Palestinian media reported.
The assailant was identified as Amjad Sakri, the personal bodyguard of Ramallah’s general prosecutor.
MDA paramedics evacuated three people in their twenties to Jerusalem hospitals; one in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the upper body, one in moderate to serious condition with a gunshot wound to a limb, and a third in light condition with a gunshot wound in a limb….On Saturday evening a 17-year-old Jewish youth was lightly wounded after being stabbed in the back by an Arab terrorist while walking with a friend outside the Old City’s Damascus Gate toward the end of Shabbat.
One of the Palestinians wanted in the stabbing attack against the teen surrendered to authorities, Israel Radio reported on Sunday.
The suspect, a 16-year-old from east Jerusalem, turned himself in to police once he realized that officers were on their way to arrest him.
Overnight Saturday, Israeli security forces arrested eight wanted Palestinians in the West Bank. Two of the suspects were accused of involvement in terror acts and disturbing the peace.
Five of the suspects, including three Hamas activists, were arrested in Hebron.