Leaders of the Jewish community of Hevron have called on Prime Minister Sharon to keep his election promise and restore security to the area. They were responding to the shooting of a Jewish man in his leg yesterday in Hevron\'s Gross Square, amidst heavy Palestinian shooting at the Jewish neighborhood there. Eighteen-year-old El\'ad Paas, a resident of Petach Tikvah who was visiting his brother for Shabbat, was shot from Palestinian fire from the Abu Sneineh Hills, overlooking the Avraham Avinu neighborhood. Paas was standing with a group of Hevron youths near the entrance to the neighborhood when the sniper began shooting. Many children reported bullets flying past them or hitting the street in front of them. Paas was taken to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, and is now listed in satisfactory condition.
This morning, the Jews of Hevron sang, danced, and marched through the streets, in the Purim \"Adloyada\" celebrations. Children and adults came out in full costume, in accordance with Purim tradition. The army decided to allow the march, and imposed a full curfew on the Arab residents of the parts of Hevron that are under Israeli control. Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon, who was dressed as Shimon Peres, later told Arutz-7,
\"Thank G-d, it\'s never boring here in Hevron even for a minute. There were several shootings at the Jewish Community yesterday, but only one person was hurt - lightly, thank G-d. Yesterday\'s violence started the same way it has many times over the past months - murderous attacks from Palestinian positions in Abu Sneineh towards us.\" Arnon agreed that the pictures shown on television yesterday - featuring Jews breaking Arab car windshields - were not very positive, but said, \"Some of the people got a bit out of hand, due to both the intoxication of Purim and the pressure-cooker atmosphere in which they live, but this is far from the norm of Jewish behavior here. The army commanders here have all said that our restraint and behavior is most admirable. It\'s well known that the photographers are Arab, and take pictures only of that which is convenient to them. They never show the Jewish victims, but only the Jewish reactions that finally come after nothing else works. Just like in Netanya last week, after the terrorist bombing in which three Jews were killed, the pictures concentrated on the angry reaction of a few people who beat up an Arab... CNN is clearly a hostile network - when Jews are killed, they barely pay it any attention, but if Arabs undergo some suffering in response, they devote many minutes of coverage... Even on the Voice of Israel I was cut off when I tried to say that the photographers are in cahoots with the terrorists, they often have advance word of attacks, and they themselves are a provocation, and this is why the Jewish residents don\'t want them here...\"
This morning, the Jews of Hevron sang, danced, and marched through the streets, in the Purim \"Adloyada\" celebrations. Children and adults came out in full costume, in accordance with Purim tradition. The army decided to allow the march, and imposed a full curfew on the Arab residents of the parts of Hevron that are under Israeli control. Hevron spokesman Noam Arnon, who was dressed as Shimon Peres, later told Arutz-7,
\"Thank G-d, it\'s never boring here in Hevron even for a minute. There were several shootings at the Jewish Community yesterday, but only one person was hurt - lightly, thank G-d. Yesterday\'s violence started the same way it has many times over the past months - murderous attacks from Palestinian positions in Abu Sneineh towards us.\" Arnon agreed that the pictures shown on television yesterday - featuring Jews breaking Arab car windshields - were not very positive, but said, \"Some of the people got a bit out of hand, due to both the intoxication of Purim and the pressure-cooker atmosphere in which they live, but this is far from the norm of Jewish behavior here. The army commanders here have all said that our restraint and behavior is most admirable. It\'s well known that the photographers are Arab, and take pictures only of that which is convenient to them. They never show the Jewish victims, but only the Jewish reactions that finally come after nothing else works. Just like in Netanya last week, after the terrorist bombing in which three Jews were killed, the pictures concentrated on the angry reaction of a few people who beat up an Arab... CNN is clearly a hostile network - when Jews are killed, they barely pay it any attention, but if Arabs undergo some suffering in response, they devote many minutes of coverage... Even on the Voice of Israel I was cut off when I tried to say that the photographers are in cahoots with the terrorists, they often have advance word of attacks, and they themselves are a provocation, and this is why the Jewish residents don\'t want them here...\"