Israel Matzav

IDF soldier escapes attempted kidnapping in Jordan Valley

An IDF soldier escaped a kidnapping attempt in the Jordan Valley on Sunday.

An IDF soldier has complained that three men tried to force him into a car at the Hamra Junction in the Jordan Valley Sunday. According to the soldier, he was standing at the junction when a white car stopped near him, and the men got out of it and attacked him.

The soldier said that he escaped by running into an olive grove.

Police from the Misgav and Tverya stations are questioning the soldier and checking the veracity of his complaint. Meanwhile, roadblocks have been set up to try and catch the escaping vehicle.

Isn't everyone glad now that we traded over 1,000 terrorists for Gilad Shalit? The 'Palestinians' have been trying this sort of attack regularly ever since.

Jibril Rajoub, a senior official in the Palestinian Authority (PA), said in January that the PA encourages Hamas to abduct soldiers and hold them hostage, in order to make Israel release PA terrorist prisoners in their place.

"If Hamas wants to kidnap Israeli soldiers, they should go ahead and kidnap Israeli soldiers," Rajoub stated in a live PA television broadcast. "They should kidnap them if [the Israelis] refuse to release more prisoners, if they want to keep them imprisoned forever – only releasing them as ghosts or skeletons."

"The Israelis need to understand," Rajoub declared. "It is obvious that kidnapping is a language they understand."

"If anything, we encourage Hamas to kidnap Israeli soldiers," he continued. "When they kidnapped [Gilad] Schalit, we welcomed it. When they performed the Schalit [prisoner exchange] deal, we had some reservations about it, but we welcomed it too."

 What could go wrong?

Labels: kidnapping, Palestinian terrorism

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:42 PM