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1/ Omar Shakir is Human Rights Watch's director in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Read his account. Then see the video, in the reply immediately below, of what actually happened -- an attempted murderer being shot in the course of his attack.
2/ Here's the video: https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1275773732989124608
3/ Car ramming attacks like this have been a frequent tactic by Palestinian attackers, and sometimes involved the perpetrator leaving the vehicle and continuing the attack with crowbars or knives. You can see video of an older attack, for example, here: https://www.channel4.com/news/clashes-in-jerusalem-after-deadly-car-attack-watch-live
4/ In Oct. 2014, an attacker killed a three-month-old girl and a 22-year-old Ecuadorian. In Nov. 2014, a man attacked a bus stop, got out, and stabbed a young girl to death. Also that Nov, an attacker rammed a light rail station then jumped out and attacked people with a crowbar.
5/ Jan 2017. July 2008. Aug 2014. Sept 2008. May 2011. And on and on. Hamas calls these attacks "heroic operations" and urges Palestinians to ram Israelis: "We call on the people of Jerusalem and the West Bank and all of the Palestinians to carry out more of these activities..."
6/ Palestinians have dubbed such attacks part of a "car intifada," and celebrated them with images like this.
7/ In response to the Erakat incident the @hrw director pretended was an arbitrary act of Israeli "gunning down" an innocent man, some people on this website are pretending there's no reason for anyone to believe this was an attack, counting on readers not knowing the context.
8/ Everyone in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, though, knows very well that this is a typical type of attack. Some more Palestinian cartoons from the past that underscore the reality:
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10/ Here's a Palestinian song called something like "Run them over, run them over."
11/ Again, it's not just Twitter randos who try to pretend deadly Palestinian vehicular attacks are not the kind of thing that exist, or that Israel has to be vigilant about. It's a director at Human Rights Watch. Caveat emptor.
"They continue their Lies and claim he tried to run over the soldiers," insists the secretary general of the PLO.
15/ The above falsehood isn't surprising from the man who insisted Israel "massacred" 500 people in Jenin in 2002, after urban combat took the lives of≈50 Palestinian gunmen and 23 Israeli soldiers. But his current claims treated as credible by media. https://www.camera.org/article/a-look-back-electronic-intifadas-falsehoods-about-erekats-jenin-fictions/
16/ After the video of the ramming attack emerged in the face of such denials, the talking points, by necessity, switched to full-on gaslighting.
17/ Some of the attacker's family members were more honest about what the video shows. His cousin Hiba Erakat said the family is baffled by the video because they didn't expect he'd want to commit suicide: “We are wondering if he had any personal problems and wanted to escape.”
18/ Here's a more complete version of the video in tweet 12 above, which does a good job highlighting the point made in tweet 3 (noting that the crash is often the beginning, not the end, of the attack). https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1277105807201579008?s=20
