Palestinian baby named after terrorist killer

A Palestinian baby was named after terrorist Muhannad Halabi just hours after he stabbed two Israelis, Nehemiah Lavi and Aaron Banita, to death in Jerusalem three days ago.

WAFA, the official Palestinian Authority news agency, and the official PA daily both reported on the joyous naming. Both sources described the killer who murdered the two Israelis and also stabbed a mother and her baby as a “hero of our people” who was “murdered by the occupation army.”

Muhannad Halabi killed 2 Israelis, Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi and Aharon Banita, and injured Banita’s wife, Adele, and their 2-year-old son in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday, October 3, 2015.

Following the attack, he was shot and killed by Israeli security forces.

Palestinian Media Watch reports that prior to his attack, in a post to his private Facebook page, the terrorist referred to recent terror attacks as part of a “Third Intifada,” and said that it was a response to Israel’s actions at the al-Aqsa Mosque — i.e., the Temple Mount — and that the Palestinian people would not “succumb to humiliation.” This was a reference to the PA libel that Israel is plotting to take over and destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque and to the PA’s portrayal of Jews praying on the Temple Mount as “an invasion of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”