They caught yesterday’s would-be Tel Aviv suicide bomber. But don’t think that Israel is safe, or even that the terrorists have stopped trying to murder Israelis. They most certainly have not.
Security officials were not surprised by the attempted suicide bombing in the heart of Israel Tuesday. “The calm in recent months is deceiving. There are constant attempts to launch terror attacks,” they said.
During the past year, after numerous bombing attacks during the al-Aqsa intifada, a substantial drop was registered in the number of terror attacks. However, sources say that such attacks are still constantly being attempted, but are mostly foiled by security forces.
[…] Ecsoll stressed that despite the quick police work, there are cases where the terrorist manages to blow himself up before he is caught. “To our great joy we managed to stop him, but unfortunately we don’t always manage to catch him at the last second.”
Hundreds of suicide attacks are foiled every year. You rarely read about them. Israel’s security forces, combined with the crackdown on the palestinians and the security wall have lowered the murderous attacks to the fewest in recent memory, thankfully.
But don’t think they aren’t trying.
A senior member of the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing, told Ynet that although Tuesday’s attack failed, more attacks were planned in the future.
“This is also a message to the American administration, its supporters and its collaborators, that if any harm comes to Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah, this will set fire to the region,” the operative said.
It’s not quite an “open the gates of hell” threat (the usual terrorist response to Israel’s taking out a leading terrorist), but it’s pretty standard. Israel recently identified Shalah as a target. Funny, I thought they all wanted to go out in battle with the Zionists. Guess not all of ’em.
PIJ is funded and trained by Iran, and used as an arm of their proxy army against Israel.