According to the ISA, its agency along with Israel Police and the IDF arrested 3,100 suspects related to terror attacks in 2015, one-third will Hamas affiliation. The information was released on Tuesday, 14 Adar-I by the ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet), showing 83% of the suspects live in PA (Palestinian Authority) areas of Yehuda and Shomron. Those arrests led to 1,933 criminal indictments.

The facts show an upward trend when it comes to the involvement of Israeli Arab citizens in terror, but this trend is described as “minor”. Since the beginning of this ongoing wave of terror on erev Rosh Hashanah 5776, there has been a more visible Israeli Arab involvement including the attack in the Beersheva Central Bus Station in which two people were killed. This was carried out by an Israeli Bedouin. Another attack carried out by an Israeli Arab that made headlines was in Gan Shmuel Jct., in which four people were injured.

Attacks that occur in so-called “Green Line” Israel appear to receive more international and local media coverage than attacks in areas of Yehuda and Shomron.

The data also addresses Jewish terror, citing in 2015 there were 16 attacks perpetrated by Jews as was the case in 2014 however in 2015 the attacks became more serious. Leading that list was the arson attack in Duma in which three members of the Darawshe family were killed and another injured. There was also the abduction and heinous murder of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu-Khadir, who was doused with gasoline and set afire while alive.

There was an increase in the number of people murdered in acts of terror in 2015 as compared to the previous year, 28 in 2015 including three members of security forces as compared to 20 in 2014. This is attributed to the ongoing terror that began erev Rosh Hashanah, for in October, November and December of 2015, twenty-four people HY”D were killed as opposed to four in the nine months preceding October. Four of the twenty-eight killed were inside Green Line Israel, two in Beersheva and two in Tel Aviv.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)