From Ian:
'Our baby united the Jewish people’ say parents from Ofra terror attack
Bennett, 8 other ministers join protest against government response to terror
Netanyahu warns Hamas after spate of terror attacks
'Our baby united the Jewish people’ say parents from Ofra terror attack
Amichai Ishran, the father of the the infant who died following the terror attack outside Ofra, said his son managed to unite the Jewish people during the three days he was alive.
During an emotional press conference held in Shaarei Tzedek Hospital by Amichai and his wife Shira who were both shot and wounded last Sunday, the two bereaved parents gave heartfelt thanks to the outpouring of love they said they have felt following the terror attack which they said had given them physical and psychological strength.
“Our baby, Amiad Israel, managed to unite the Jewish people in the three days he was alive, something most people never manage to do during their entire lives,” said Amichai.
“Everyone wanted to come and help us and wish us well, secular, religious, haredi, from across the spectrum of Israeli society,” he continued.
Amichai said that the Jewish people should take the importance of unity to heart from the death of their baby, and remain united despite differences of opinion.
“We are brothers first and foremost, that they will not succeed in taking from us. They can stab us, shoot us, run us over, throw stones at us, murder us, murder our children, but they cannot break us, we wont let them,” he said emotionally.
Bennett, 8 other ministers join protest against government response to terror
Nine government ministers, including Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and four members of the ruling Likud party, joined a protest against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, accusing him of being weak on combating a spate of West Bank terror attacks.
Bennett addressed the rally outside the Prime Minister’s Office, where he accused Netanyahu of failing to protect Israelis against terror attacks, before tearing into the premier at the cabinet meeting over his security policy.
Speaking to the crowd of some 200 right-wing activists calling for a tougher response to recent terror attacks in the West Bank, Education Minister Bennett said that the “security establishment… has chosen the rights of Palestinians over the security of Israelis.”
Bennett said that when Netanyahu appointed himself defense minister two weeks ago — a position that the Jewish Home leader had unsuccessfully demanded for himself — he “promised a change in policy, to restore power” over Israel’s enemies.
“That has not happened yet,” Bennett charged in front of a banner reading, “We’re done being silent because we’re sick of dying.”
“Bibi, resign, you are not wanted anymore!” the crowd chanted, using the nickname of the prime minister.
Hamas spokesman takes picture of funeral of 3 day old baby who died after being attacked by a Palestinian terrorist in utero with headline "I Feel No Sympathy for the Settlers". Piece is published by Hamas propaganda site.
— The Mossad (@TheMossadIL) December 16, 2018
Just kidding. It's @gideonle and @haaretzcom. pic.twitter.com/mMEHKutrSD
Netanyahu warns Hamas after spate of terror attacks
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had issued a warning to Hamas after recent deadly attacks in the West Bank, including two shootings claimed by the Gaza-based terrorist group.Hamas leader ‘not denying’ that West Bank terror attacks were ordered from Gaza
Netanyahu referred to a controversial Gaza ceasefire in November that ended the worst escalation between Israel and Hamas since a 2014 war.
“I conveyed a clear message to Hamas — we won’t accept a situation of a truce in Gaza and terror in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting, using the biblical name for the West Bank.
“We will exact a high price for them,” he said of the attacks.
Hamas runs the Gaza Strip but also has a presence in the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s comments came after two soldiers were shot dead at a bus stop outside the outpost of Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank.
Hamas Politburo chairman Ismail Haniyeh said on Sunday he does not deny that orders to carry out recent deadly terror attacks in the West Bank came from the Gaza Strip.
Haniyeh made the remark during a speech he delivered to tens of thousands of Hamas supporters in a Gaza City square at a rally marking the 31st anniversary of the terror group’s founding.
“I will also respond to the Zionists who are saying what is happening in the West Bank is based on directives and arrangements from Gaza,” Haniyeh said in the hour-long speech. “This is an accusation we do not deny… because it is a source of pride reigning over all of us.”
IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Nadav Padan said last week that Hamas was behind recent shooting attacks in the West Bank.
“In the past few days, a Hamas terror group cell managed to harm us and exact from us a heavy price,” Padan said on Thursday. “We will pursue them and settle the score with this cell.”



















