Palestinian Arab terrorists continue to abuse Israeli goodwill in order to carry out murderous attacks against Jewish men, women and children, as evidenced by Monday's arrest of a would-be female “suicide” bomber in Gaza.
Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bas, 21, had been granted ongoing access to “Israel proper” in order to obtain treatment at Beersheva's Soroka Medical Center for burns she suffered during a gas tank explosion earlier in the year.
A terror group affiliated with PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction took advantage of the situation, and convinced Bas to strap explosives to her body and detonate them during her next visit to the hospital.
Speaking from an Israeli prison hours after her arrest, Bas said she had hoped to kill as many as 50 Jews, including as many children as possible.
“I love Allah, I love the land of Palestine and I am a member of [Fatah's] Al-Aksa Brigades,” she declared.
Security officials noted this was not the first case of the Palestinian Arabs making use of Israeli humanitarian goodwill in an effort to murder Jews.
Sadly, such incidents require Israel “to carry out more stringent inspections, and those who suffer will be those requiring medical treatment,” Col. Yoav Mordechai, head of the Erez district liaison office, told The Jerusalem Post.
Another senior security official said human rights groups often criticize Israel for carrying out inspections of Palestinian Arabs in need of medical treatment.
He said they failed to understand that while Israel desired to help those people, “our dilemma is how to differentiate between those who really seek treatment and sometimes those who may suffer from terminal illnesses and figure they have nothing to lose by agreeing to carry out a suicide attack.”
Bas was stopped in her attempt thanks to the biometric scanners installed at the Erez Crossing station, a technology the Palestinian Authority insisted was a deliberate attempt to give the Arabs cancer and demanded Israel remove.
Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bas, 21, had been granted ongoing access to “Israel proper” in order to obtain treatment at Beersheva's Soroka Medical Center for burns she suffered during a gas tank explosion earlier in the year.
A terror group affiliated with PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction took advantage of the situation, and convinced Bas to strap explosives to her body and detonate them during her next visit to the hospital.
Speaking from an Israeli prison hours after her arrest, Bas said she had hoped to kill as many as 50 Jews, including as many children as possible.
“I love Allah, I love the land of Palestine and I am a member of [Fatah's] Al-Aksa Brigades,” she declared.
Security officials noted this was not the first case of the Palestinian Arabs making use of Israeli humanitarian goodwill in an effort to murder Jews.
Sadly, such incidents require Israel “to carry out more stringent inspections, and those who suffer will be those requiring medical treatment,” Col. Yoav Mordechai, head of the Erez district liaison office, told The Jerusalem Post.
Another senior security official said human rights groups often criticize Israel for carrying out inspections of Palestinian Arabs in need of medical treatment.
He said they failed to understand that while Israel desired to help those people, “our dilemma is how to differentiate between those who really seek treatment and sometimes those who may suffer from terminal illnesses and figure they have nothing to lose by agreeing to carry out a suicide attack.”
Bas was stopped in her attempt thanks to the biometric scanners installed at the Erez Crossing station, a technology the Palestinian Authority insisted was a deliberate attempt to give the Arabs cancer and demanded Israel remove.
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