Palestinian irony

 Palestinian charged with attempted murder for stabbing of another Palestinian man in Jaffa (TA) who he thought was Jewish.....

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Prosecutors filed an indictment today against Mohammed Haroub for the stabbing in Tel Aviv on the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, during which a man was seriously hurt.

Mohammed Haroub was charged with “a terrorist act of attempted murder, a terrorist act of aggravated assault,” and illegally entering Israel from the West Bank. Prosecutors said he stabbed the Arab victim with a screwdriver, assuming he was Jewish.

“The defendant, who believed that the plaintiff was a person of Jewish descent, approached him without being noticed, shouting at him in Arabic ‘Jew, Jew,’ hit him over the head with a bottle of water next to him, and stabbed him with the screwdriver in his upper body, with the intention of causing his death,” a statement from the Justice Ministry said.

The victim, from East Jerusalem, shouted back at the assailant in Arabic during the attack that he was not Jewish, but the stabber ignored his calls, the indictment read. Mohammed Haroub only fled the scene after he thought the injuries he had caused the victim would lead to his death, prosecutors charged. Police arrested him nearby shortly after the stabbing.

This stabbing was part of spate of stabbing attacks last month, apparently in solidarity with the Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison and were all later rearrested.