Palestinian Who Killed Israeli Woman Detained

Meir died while attempting to fight off her attacker and prevent him from hurting the three children, who were home when he entered the house, the Israeli media reported.

The new attacks triggered fears that the unrest was worsening and Israel would impose a harsh security crackdown on Palestinians.

A tear-choked Renana Meir, 17, apologized over her mother’s body on Monday for not preventing the Palestinian terrorist from stabbing her to death.

A pregnant Israeli woman in her 30s was seriously wounded in Monday’s stabbing attack at a clothing store in the settlement of Tekoa, south of Bethlehem.

“We will find the terrorist, and he will pay the full price for this heinous murder”, Netanyahu posted on Facebook.

The report states that the some 20 Israeli-run industrial areas in the West Bank contribute to a system that discriminates against Palestinians for the benefit of settlements.

“Master of the Universe!” cried out the chief rabbi, “You said You would not take a mother of children, and here a mother was taken in front of her children!”

Authorities announced early this morning, Tuesday, 9 Shevat, that agents of the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) working with the IDF’s Duvdevan unit apprehended the terrorist who murdered Mrs. Dafna Meir at the entrance to her Otniel home earlier in the week.

Hebron, where several hundred Israeli settlers live in the city centre among around 200,000 Palestinians, has been a flashpoint in a wave of Palestinian knife, gun and car-ramming attacks that began in October. “Now you won’t escort me to my wedding”.

Meir’s death brought the toll in the recent violence to 24 Israelis and 155 Palestinians killed since Oct.1.

The spate of violence, mostly stabbings and vehicle rammings, perpetrated by young Palestinians unaffiliated to militant groups, is now in its fourth month. Neighbours in the settlement of Otniel said they heard one of her daughters screaming for help.

“We are concerned and perplexed by Israel’s strategy on settlements”, Shapiro told a security conference in Tel Aviv.

As for other coverage, Reuters, in contrast to the Associated Press and AFP wire services, didn’t even bother to publish a stand-alone story on the terrorist attack, instead referring to it as “the latest incident” in what amounted to a roundup of events.

“Yet separation will become more and more difficult” if Israel continues to expand settlements, he said.