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Israel is bracing for possible terror attacks, including the firing of long-range rockets from Gaza, as the anniversary of October 7 looms on Monday. On Sunday, a gunman burst into the central bus station in the southern city of Be’er Sheva, wounding at least seven people before being killed. (Update: One person was reported killed and ten wounded.) The country will remain on high alert for similar attacks. Meanwhile, Israelis are preparing for a variety of commemorations of the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023, which launched a war that has lasted a year.

The Kuwaiti journalist @JasemAljuraid @JasemAljuraid against the Qatari al-Jazeera over the coverage of the attack in Beer Sheva: "You call murderers as having died as "martyrs," a rotten channel ?! Incitement to kill innocent women and old men, legitimize the killer and announce to him the death of saints. Whoever kills innocent people on the street from any country or religion is a rotten terrorist! "pic.twitter.com/lRXGtY59IF— roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס (@kaisos1987) March 23, 2022

יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) Tweeted: "Palestinian" children celebrate the terror and murder of innocent Israeli citizens who were murdered in cold blood by a heinous terrorist. Education for terrorism, for blood, for morbid hatred. When we talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this is what is behind it - that while Israel strives for Palestinian peace, it strives for terrorism, murder and the destruction of Israel.* And it is not perceivable how in Gaza this murder is celebrated ... how evil! How can one rejoice in the murder of innocent people? How can one become a "hero" from a...

In the terror attack yesterday in the Israeli town of Beer Sheva, an Israeli Arab murdered 4 Jews.The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) praised the attack & "saluted the person who carried out the heroic operation."The DFLP is a member of the PLO. pic.twitter.com/9cGLxipL1f— Pal Media Watch (@palwatch) March 23, 2022

An Arab assailant killed at least four people in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba on Tuesday in the deadliest such attack in years, before he was fatally shot by a Police identified the attacker as an Arab citizen of Israel, a former high school teacher who had been imprisoned over alleged links to Islamic State. Police spokesman Eli Levy said “a civilian took the initiative and shot and killed” the knife-wielding assailant, a confrontation on a busy city street that later played out in videos filmed by onlookers and broadcast on Israeli television. Tensions have been on the rise in...

The terrorist responsible for .. stabbing attack was given a reduced sentence in a previous terror-related indictment. The terrorist Mohammad Jalab Abu al-Quian, who on Tuesday murdered four Jews in Be'er Sheva, pleaded guilty in 2016 as part of a plea deal to a variety of security offenses, including the establishment of a terrorist cell on behalf of ISIS... According to the indictment, "As of January 2015, the defendant began delivering sermons in the mosque during Friday prayers. In some sermons, he spoke about ISIS and claimed that the organization was in accordance with Islam, with the intention that worshipers...

The terrorist ran over and murdered a cyclist and then continued to the 'Big Center' where he embarked on a stabbing campaign - in which he murdered three other passers-by. After walking around with a knife in his hand, the terrorist was shot and neutralized by civilians on the spot.

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Major General Herzi Halevi, the Commanding Officer of the IDF Southern Command, slammed the Hamas terrorist organization following the rocket attack on Be'er Sheva early Wednesday morning. "Hamas pretends to govern in Gaza, and tells the Gazan population that it seeks to improve their lives. However, in reality, Hamas specializes in riots at the border fence and in using explosive devices, incendiary and explosive balloons, and, as we saw last night, rockets," Gen. Halevi said in a statement. "Hamas worsens the lives of ordinary Gazans and last night took actions which forced us to strike a range of weapon production...

Many of those injured in Sunday night's shooting attack at the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station may have been wounded by friendly fire - not from the terrorist himself, a senior police officer said Monday night. Two people were killed in the attack and nine others wounded - several seriously - when 21 year-old Israeli Arab Muhaned Al-Okabi shot a soldier, grabbed his automatic weapon and opened fire on a group of police standing in the station. He was later shot dead by security forces. Those killed in the attack included IDF soldier Omri Levy, whom Al-Okabi shot, and Eritrean...

Hundreds of students from the AMIT yeshiva in Yeruham visited the scene of the Be'er Sheva bus station attack Monday, in order to give strength and encouragement to commuters and locals after the shooting. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWUz7G6LPU On Sunday night, two people were killed in the attack and nine others wounded - several seriously - when 21 year-old Israeli Arab Muhaned Al-Okabi shot a soldier, grabbed his automatic weapon and opened fire on a group of police standing in the station. He was later shot dead...

Three people were seriously injured from rocket fire in Be'er Sheva on Monday, including two teenage sisters. The sisters, ages 10 and 13 respectively, were hit by shrapnel after a rocket landed in a Bedouin village close to Be'er Sheva. They were admitted to Soroka Medical Center shortly after the attack, according to Walla! News. One, 13 year-old Atil Alwakili, is in moderate condition; the other, 10 year-old Mar'am, is fighting for her life after suffering from shrapnel wounds to her stomach. An 81 year-old disabled man was also seriously injured in the attack. Magen David Adom (MDA) and Ichud...

(IsraelNN.com) Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin warned Monday that Hizbullah may open up another front in the ongoing war. Yadlin warned that Hizbullah may fire Katushya rockets at Israeli cities in the coming days.

Yisrael Jarmon of Eli, driving to Jerusalem Thursday morning, was ambushed and shot at repeatedly by terrorists - and emerged without a scratch.The well-planned terrorist attack occurred at around 10:00 this morning. Yisrael was on his way to Jerusalem, about a half-kilometer [north of] Ofrah, when two Arabs standing on the side of the road attacked his car. One threw a large rock, forcing him to slow down, while the other one opened fire. "I continued to drive, even as they fired at me," he said, "and miraculously made it safely to Ofrah." Yoav Finkel of Ofrah, who arrived...

The head of the Hamas military wing in the West Bank city of Hebron, Imad Kawasme, surrendered to the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday morning when troops surrounded his safe house in an arrest raid. Kawasme is suspected of dispatching two suicide bombers who carried out the August 31 terror attack in the southern city of Be'er Sheva in which 16 people were killed and 100 others wounded. The surrender of a member of the Hamas military wing, Iz a Din al-Kassam, is quite a rare occurrence, as the organization's militants in Hebron and Nablus have in the past two...

During its session today, the Knesset will stand in a moment of silence in memory of those people murdered by Muslim terrorists in Russia and in Be'er Sheva last week. The chairman of the Likud Knesset members, Gideon Sa'ar, made the formal motion for the moment of silence, saying: "Our hearts go out to the Russian people, who are mourning children murdered in inhumane brutality. The mourning of the parents and families from Be'er Sheva is the same as the mourning of the parents and families from Beslan; and the struggle against international terrorism in all its forms is also...

w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m Last update - 21:46 01/09/2004 Victims of the Be'er Sheva suicide bombings Tamara Dibrashvilli, 70, from Or YehudaTamara Dibrashvilli was on bus no. 6 on her way home from shopping with her daughter in preparation for a memorial service for her late husband Shalva, who died seven years ago. She is survived by her four daughters, all of them married. Two weeks ago, her family threw her a surprise party to mark her 70th birthday. On Tuesday, the daughters watched a video of the party while...

The crowd of nail-biting, tear-streaked people clustered around Soroka Hospital's emergency wing parted to make way for the newly bereaved family, their murmuring voices drowned out by Miri Yossef's screams. "Why? Why? Why?" the 19-year-old wailed. "Why did they take my brother?" Yossef's brother Emanuel had come down to his hometown from Tel Hai College near Kiryat Shmona to look for work when the bus he was traveling on was blown up by a suicide bomber. He left behind four siblings, one of whom, said Emanuel, 28, was soon to be married. "He was a person that loved everyone, that...

Double bus bombings have rocked the southern town of Be'er Sheva, killing 16 - and wounding over 100, including close to 15 seriously. Police are on high alert nationwide. The twin bus bombs were detonated at around 2:55 P.M. on Rager Boulevard, near Be'er Sheva's City Hall. The buses were approximately 100 meters apart when suicide terrorists detonated their explosives. Over 100 people were evacuated to Soroka Hospital, including 23 with moderate wounds. Arutz-7 correspondent Moshe Priel spoke with Yaakov, the driver of the number 12 bus, which was targeted in the second blast. He described the horror he and...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: snip Over 100 casualties, including 15 murdered, 4 critically, 21 medium, and 47 lightly. All evacuated to Saroka Hospital in Beer Sheva. First reports indicate Hamas, harbored by the Palestinian Authority terrorist regime in Hebron, committed the attack. The site of the terror attacks shows, from first reports, the bodies of the two suicide terrorists.