Turkish Embassy attacker 'planned something big'
Ramallah resident Nadim Injaz, 33, indicted for breaking and entering into Tel Aviv embassy, extortion and residing in Israel illegally. According to indictment, while in embassy he shouted, 'Honorable President Erdogan must grant me political asylum against Zionist murderers'
Injaz, who was seeking help in leaving the country, threatened that he would carry out "something big" which would harm Israel. He was accused of extortion, breaking and entering, intimidation and residing in Israel illegally.
According to the indictment, he equipped himself with various devices, including a fake gun, a 20-centimeter (8-inch) knife and an inflammable substance in a bottle, which were to be used to hurt him and the people around him.
The indictment describes how he climbed over the embassy fence and entered the plaza. He opened the window at the rear side of the building and entered the embassy.
In addition, the indictment adds, he called a journalist and told him, "I have a weapon, I have a tin of oil and I'll show them." In another conversation he said he was had taken two hostages and threatened, "Now I'll show everyone."
He then telephoned another journalist and told him, "I have taken hostages…I have two hostages with me… If they don't accept my demands I'll burn them and the embassy and myself all together… I have a weapon, fuel, an explosive device and everything… If they don't let me get out of here I'll burn down their building… My ultimatum is that the honorable (Turkish) President Erdogan, who I have a lot of respect for, grant me political asylum against the Zionist murderers."
Later on, while he was faced by the embassy people, Injaz put a knife to his neck and threatened to hurt himself with the knife or set himself on fire if he was not given political asylum. The embassy people gained control of him and handed him over to the Israel Police outside the embassy building, where he was arrested.
Injaz broke into the Turkish Embassy on August 14. According to embassy officials, he jumped over the fence in an area not covered by the security cameras, walked to the back of the building and climbed to the second floor through the gutter. He entered the deputy consul's room through the window and demanded political asylum.
Injaz claimed that he had served since 2002 as a collaborator of the Shin Bet, which even tried to convince him to murder former Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti. In the past few years, his operators abandoned him and he feared for his life in the Palestinian Authority. In 2006, he barricaded himself in the British Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Vered Luvitch contributed to this report
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