Palestinian boy, 11, who stabbed train guard in the head: ‘I wanted to die a martyr’

[shira]

Youngest Palestinian assailant in current terror wave explains why he and his cousin attempted to kill a Jew on Jerusalem light rail two weeks ago

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF November 26, 2015, 12:10 am

....Two light rail security guards boarded the train, but the boys decided “not to stab them because there were two of them. Later on one of them got off and we immediately attacked the one that remained.” “I stabbed him in his head, my cousin stabbed him in his chest and stomach until the guard pushed me and fired three bullets in my stomach,” said the 11-year-old.

The two cousins had decided they were ready to die as shahids, or martyrs, he said. The younger one said in the interrogation that none of their family members knew about their intentions. “I wanted to die as a shahid but now I understand I made a mistake and I am sorry,” he was quoted saying. At the end of his interrogation, according to the Shin Bet, he repeated: “I made a mistake. I want to be in school like any normal person. I don’t want to resist the occupation any longer.”

The older cousin confessed early on in his interrogation, but said he did not mean to kill anyone, the TV report said. “I didn’t want to kill. I wanted to wound the settler who burned Muhammad Abu Khdeir. They said (the attacker in that case) was retarded and sent him home. So I’m a minor and I should also go home,” he is heard saying in the tape, aired by Channel 2. (The teen was referring to 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir, who was kidnapped and burned on July 2, 2014, by alleged Jewish terrorists in a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teens by Hamas terrorists in the West Bank three weeks earlier. The trial is ongoing and the main suspect, Yosef Ben-David, insists on his right to remain silent. Ben-David’s lawyer maintains that his client is insane.)

The older cousin added: “The Israelis are occupying us and I am angry at what is happening in Gaza. I wanted to avenge the Jews who are torturing us.” Asked why they did not try to stab one of the passengers on the light rail, he said: “The Jews on the train were only old people and women, and it’s shameful to stab them.”

Abdallah Alkam, the uncle of both the Palestinian children, told Channel 2 that family members do not believe children so young were capable of carrying out such attacks. “This kid had no intention of harming anyone or drawing blood. He didn’t mean it, he only went to school. You won’t find knives in their schoolbags, only pens and notebooks.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-boy-11-who-stabbed-train-guard-in-the-head-i-wanted-to-die-a-martyr/

[Agnosticsherbet]

1. I am speachless and sad.

They are children.

[6chars]

2. What are the adults doing?

For kids this young to be thinking as they did, there has to be brainwashing. It doesn't sound like the family is brainwashing them. But the unopposed torrent of anti-semitism in the PA is a contributor.

[azurnoir]

3. People reading this should take the claims with more than a few grains of salt

Palestinian children are arrested a common method is for IDF to raid their homes and drag them from their beds in the of the night , then put under intense interrogation by Shin Bet Israel's version of the FBI/CIA, often with no legal consul present and kept isolated from other family members for days and weeks at a time until they confess, they are then tried by a military court that has a 99% conviction rate and in a new twist their families home can be demolished - reports of physical and mental abuse abound to the degree that Democratic Congresswoman Betty McCollum spoke out about it in June of this year

https://mccollum.house.gov/press-release/mccollum-leads-letter-secretary-state-kerry-putting-spotlight-israeli-military

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/07/19/israel-security-forces-abuse-palestinian-children

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/israeli-abuse-of-palestinian-children-systematic_n_2817231.html

http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/05/israel-slammed-over-treatment-of-palestinian-children-in-detention/

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. Shira knows this, but she does this constantly...IMHO.

Curious, indeed.

[King_David]

7. Grain of salt huh ? There's cctv video..

People reading your post should take it with more than a few grains of salt.








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[azurnoir]

8. and it does not have any bearing on anything in my post

[King_David]

10. Really?

Grain of salt.

[shira]

12. More denial? Classy. n/t

[leftynyc]

13. Because everyone KNOWS

That Palestinians would NEVER pay the parents of martyrs. They would NEVER throw parades, name streets and have parties to celebrate martyrs. It's always the evil Israelis . Your deflections are pathetic. Kid already regrets getting caught up in the adult nonsense of killing yourself being something to have a fucking party for.

[King_David]

5. Wasted lives

A murderer at age 11.

[King_David]

6. 11-year-old Palestinian stabber says he regrets attack

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy involved in an attack on security guards on the Jerusalem light rail on November 10 told police investigators that he and his 14-year-old cousin carried out the attack after being turned away from school for unpaid tuition, Channel 2 reports.

Left on the streets during the day, the 14-year-old showed the 11-year-old a knife, so the two went and bought a pair of scissors.

“We rode from Shuafat to the Damascus Gate in order to stab a soldier,” the boy says. He recounts that they waited on the train until there was just one security guard, then set upon him, stabbing him with their weapons.

The teen was shot and injured by a guard during the attack.

The boy, whose name remained unpublished, says he regrets taking part in the attack.

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy involved in an attack on security guards on the Jerusalem light rail on November 10 told police investigators that he and his 14-year-old cousin carried out the attack after being turned away from school for unpaid tuition, Channel 2 reports.

Left on the streets during the day, the 14-year-old showed the 11-year-old a knife, so the two went and bought a pair of scissors.

“We rode from Shuafat to the Damascus Gate in order to stab a soldier,” the boy says. He recounts that they waited on the train until there was just one security guard, then set upon him, stabbing him with their weapons.

The teen was shot and injured by a guard during the attack.

The boy, whose name remained unpublished, says he regrets taking part in the attack.


http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/11-year-old-palestinian-stabber-says-he-regrets-attack/

[azurnoir]

9. I thought he was a blood thirsty killer who wanted to die a martyr thanks for proving my point

[King_David]

11. This is after the fact

The guy is 11 and detained now , of course he's "sorry" .

This has no bearing on your "point" whatsoever.

Nice try though.