Palestinian school staff questioned for suspected incitement
Following a school visit by the families of terrorists, an investigation revealed that what occured at the East Jerusalem elementary school isn't incitement. Lech Yerushalayim head 'justice will be meted out'
The staff of a Jabel Mukaber elementary school in East Jerusalem were questioned by police under advisement on suspicion of incitement, following a meeting they organized between the elementary school students and the families of terrorists who murdered Israelis.
However, police sources said that it seems that indictments will not be served to those involved in the meeting as criminal offenses as incitement had not been established during the investigation.
The investigation's file was transferred to the police’s investigations division for further study, and it will be decided there on how to continue. The event at the elementary school was brought to light by the Go Jerusalem (Lech Yerushalayim) organization, which seeks to apply Israeli sovereignty over all the areas of Jerusalem and monitors different Palestinian media organizations.
The organization’s head Maor Tsemach said he hoped that "justice will be meted out to these people who incite to violence, and which provide a source for terrorist activities".
The meeting with the families of the terroriststook place two months ago in Jabal Mukaber, in a school named after the neighborhood near Armon HaNatziv in Jerusalem. At the meeting, the parents of terrorists who killed Israelis during the current terror wave spoke to the students.
Among the speakers was Mohammed Alian, the of father Baha Alian who together with Bilal Abu Ghanem, murdered three Israelis in an attack on a bus in Armon HaNatziv last October.
In pictures from the event posted on a Facebook page with the school's emblem, Alian can be seen speaking with the children and taking pictures with them. A post on the page praises the terrorists and their families, and thanks the families for their visit.
Two days after Ynet’s publication of the event, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan ordered to check whether the activity constituted incitement. Netanyahu addressed the issue to the Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit. Erdan requested that the police investigate the incident and bring those involved to justice if in fact there is a suspicion of inciteful offenses.
