A Palestinian Authority terrorist involved in a lethal ramming and stabbing attack last month in Ra’anana was hoping to murder IDF Arabic language spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Avichay Adraee, according to security personnel.
أنا #ابن_اليهودية وأنا #إسرائيلي_وأفتخر وأكيد راح ننتصر pic.twitter.com/1Wyak9UBeT
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) February 20, 2024
Adraee maintains a highly popular Arabic-language account on the X social media platform. A photo found by Israeli military forces on a computer in the house of a Hamas terrorist in Khan Younis by our forces featured a picture of the IDF Arabic language spokesperson, used as a shooting target.
70-Year-Old Woman Killed, 18 Wounded in Ra’anana Ramming-and-Stabbing Attack
The terrorist, 24-year-old Ahmed Zida’at, carried out the January 15 attack with 44-year-old Mahmoud Zida’at.
Both terrorists are residents of the Palestinian Authority village of Bani Naim, a suburb of Hebron, and were working illegally in Ra’anana at a car wash.
Ahmed Zida’at confessed during interrogation after his capture that he had noticed Adraee in a restaurant in the city, and had begun to follow him even before the October 7th outbreak of the war against Israel by Gaza’s Iranian-backed Hamas terror organization.
A 70-year-old woman, Edna Blustein, was killed and at least 18 other people, including at least eight children and teens waiting at a bus stop on their way home from school, were wounded in the attack.
