Hebron: Imam opens fire at Jewish community, is neutralized
Footage from the incident shows the terrorist, Sheikh Mahmoud Nofel, holding a Kalashnikov rifle and while hiding behind a gravestone, firing at the Jewish community, while being shot and wounded.
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Sheikh Mahmoud Nofal, an imam of a mosque (!) in Hebron opened fire at the Jewish neighborhood in Hebron. Fortunately, he was shot by Israeli authorities before he managed to kill anyone.
Arab terrorists from the PA never need an excuse to try to murder Israelis, but Ramadan is an especially heated and bloody time (I've made a number of threads on this over the years). Unfortunately, this year is no different. This isn't the first terror attack since Ramadan 2024 started. For example, a couple of days ago a senior IDF officer was attacked at a gas station. He barely managed to shoot the terrorist before succumbing to his wounds. And now we have a pretender "holy man" attempting to murder people on what Muslims believe is a holy month. Well.
Like Israel at large, the Hebron Jewish community is no stranger to Arab-induced terror attacks. Other than the infamous Hebron Massacre of 1929 which brought about a hiatus in the community until the 1967 War, the community has known several vicious attacks over the years. Unfortunately, I witnessed one such attack with my own eyes, when, one Shabbat eve in late 2015, my yeshiva and I prayed outside of the Machpelah Cave complex and the crowd we were in was fired upon by a sniper. Fortunately, the two people who were shot, including a guy who's a year my junior in yeshiva, were not severely injured. But luck isn't always on our side.