2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing

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2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing
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Tapuah
Location Tapuah Junction, Road 60, West Bank
Coordinates 32°06′55″N35°15′26″E / 32.11528°N 35.25722°E / 32.11528; 35.25722 Coordinates: 32°06′55″N35°15′26″E / 32.11528°N 35.25722°E / 32.11528; 35.25722
Date30 April 2013
Attack type
 stabbing
Deaths1 Israeli civilian
Injured1 (perpetrator)
PerpetratorsSalam As’ad Zaghal (according to Palestinian groups and media reports)

The 2013 Tapuah Junction stabbing [1] occurred on 30 April, in which an armed Israeli settler, Evyatar Borovsky, was stabbed, disarmed and then, according to some witnesses, shot with his own weapon at a bus stop in the northern West Bank by a Palestinian resident of Tulkarem. The Israeli police described the attacker as a "Palestinian terrorist". [2] [3] [4] The perpetrator was identified as Salam As'ad Zaghal, who had recently been released from 3.5 years in jail for planting explosives. [5] The stabbing was praised by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, its military wing, and its Islamist offshoot the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, and by Zaghal's family. [6] Jewish settlers in the West Bank waged a series of violent reprisal attacks against Palestinian targets in the West Bank, and an illegal Israeli outpost was later named in the victim's honor.

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Victim

The victim, Evyatar Borovsky, a 32-year-old father of five. A native of Kfar Hasidim, he had been living in Yitzhar for the previous five years. [1] [6] [7] His funeral took place that evening in Kfar Hasidim and was attended by more than a thousand people. [8] [9] [10]

Stabbing

According to witnesses, the Palestinian arrived at the scene in a taxi. [11] He then approached Borovsky, who was standing at a hitchhiking spot at the junction, and attacked him from behind, stabbing him in the chest. The attacker stole Borovsky's gun and used it to shoot at security forces who arrived at the scene; [12] it was unclear whether he also shot Borovsky. The assailant was then was shot and wounded by border police, arrested, and taken to an Israeli hospital for treatment. Medical teams also attempted to save Borovsky's life on the scene, but were unsuccessful. [9] [3]

Suspect

The perpetrator was identified by Palestinian groups and by the media as Palestinian man Salam As'ad Zaghal, 24, from the Tulkarem area. [1] [6] Salam had recently been released from an Israeli jail after serving a 42-month prison term for planting explosives along Israel's security barrier. [5]

Responses

Palestinian leadership

The attacker was praised as a "hero" by representatives of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, who posted pictures from the scene of the attack on the party's official Facebook page. Each image was accompanied by a caption boasting of the stabber’s "success."

Fatah's military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, took responsibility for the attack, reportedly describing it as revenge for the deaths of Palestinian men Afafat Jaradat and Maysara Abu Hamdiya while in Israeli custody. Some, however, believe the attacker worked alone in an attempt to clear his family's name after his brother was accused of collaborating with Israel. [13]

The Palestinian Mujahideen movement, an Islamist offshoot of Fatah, also congratulated the perpetrator of the attack. The movement's spokesman Abu-Omar wrote on its website: "We welcome any act of resistance against this corrupt enemy ... [The stabbing is a] natural response to the occupation’s aggression and its continuous attacks on all things Palestinian in the West Bank." [6]

Assailant's family

Salam Zaghal's father said: "It was destiny, and we take pride in him as a family. What he did is a duty for all Palestinians living with the aggression of the army and settlers". Israeli authorities suspect that the killing might have been an attempt to clear the family name, after the assistant's brother was accused of spying for Israel by the Palestinian authorities. The family denied this allegation. [5]

Price tag attacks

Jewish settlers on the West Bank descended on the Palestinian town of Huwara in the hours after the killing. They attacked a bus with Palestinian school-girls with stones, shattering a wind-shield and wounding the driver. [14]

In Umm al-Qutuf, three cars were set on fire and the local mosque was desecrated, in an apparent price tag attack for the Borovsky stabbing. [15] [16]

In what some called a "Co-ordinated attacks by settler militias on Palestinian property", a string of attacks followed on Palestinian property on the 30-day anniversary of the killing of Borovsky. [17] [18] 7 vehicles in the Palestinian West Bank villages of Zubaidat and Marj Najah, and another 7 vehicles in East Jerusalem were all vandalised. “Regards from Eviatar. God will avenge his blood,” was sprayed in Zubaidat. [19] The tires of three cars were punctured in Beitillu with graffiti reading, "revenge", and on a nearby wall, undersigned with "price tag" the words "regards from Baruch Tzuri to Eviatar", alluding to Evyatar Borovsky. [20] [21]

Israeli outpost creation

The Israeli outpost Evyatar was established in 2013 as a reaction to the killing and was named after the victim [22] [23] [24] The outpost was illegal and has since been razed by Israeli authorities several times. [25]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Tulkarm resident accused of Evyatar Borovsky murder". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  2. ↑ Spiro, Amy (2013-04-30). "Palestinian stabs Israeli to death in West Bank". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  3. 1 2 "Israeli settler killed in West Bank", BBC News, 30 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Palestinian kills Israeli in West Bank", Associated Press, 30 April 2013.
  5. 1 2 3 "Palestinian dad 'proud' of son who stabbed Israeli", Jerusalem Post, 2 May 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Settlers retaliate after West Bank stabbing death", Times of Israel, 30 April 2013.
  7. 1 2 "Fatah: Tapuah Junction stabber ‘a hero’", Times of Israel, 30 April 2013.
  8. ↑ "PM: Israel will continue to defend its citizens", Jerusalem Post, 30 April 2013.
  9. 1 2 "Israeli man killed in West Bank terror attack", Jerusalem Post 30 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "1000 people attend Eviatar Borovsky funeral", Ynet News, 30 April 2013.
  11. ↑ "Settler stabbed to death near Nablus", Maan News, 30 April 2013.
  12. ↑ Mickolus, Edward (2016-08-08). Terrorism, 2013-2015: A Worldwide Chronology. McFarland. ISBN   9781476664378.
  13. ↑ Al-Aqsa Brigades take responsibility for Tapuach Junction attack, Ynet News, 30 April 2013.
  14. ↑ Settlers throw stones, burn fields after terror attack, Itamar Fleishman, 04.30.13, Ynet
  15. ↑ Wadi Ara: Mosque desecrated; 3 cars set on fire, 05.14.13, Ynet
  16. ↑ Mosque in Israeli-Arab village vandalized in ‘price tag’ attack, May 14, 2013, JTA
  17. ↑ 'Price tag' vandals mark Borovsky murder anniversary, May 29, 2013, Ynet
  18. ↑ Co-ordinated attacks by settler militias on Palestinian property, May 29, 2013
  19. ↑ Radical 'Price Tag' Settlers Damage 14 Palestinian Cars, May 29, 2013, The Forward
  20. ↑ 'Jerusalem's Dormition Church suffers suspected 'price tag' attack', Nir Hasson and Gili Cohen, at Haaretz, 30 May 2013
  21. ↑ Suspected ‘price tag’ attacks reported in Jerusalem, West Bank, May 31, 2013, JTA
  22. ↑ "Israeli Minister pledges to block authorization of West Bank outpost". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  23. ↑ "Israeli military ready to evict 2,000 West Bank Jewish settlers". The Times.
  24. ↑ "En Samarie, Evyatar, nouveau test pour Bennett". www.radioj.fr.
  25. ↑ "Palestinian teenager shot dead in clash at protest". June 11, 2021 – via www.bbc.com.
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