There was a 284% increase in the number of injuries in terror attacks from 2014 to 2015, according to new figures released by the Shin Bet.
In 2015, there were 239 people hurt, compared to 63 the year before. The majority of the 2015 injuries, 174 of them, occurred in the final three months of the year, as part of the wave of violence that continues to rock the country.
In 2015, the Shin Bet, along with the army and police, arrested 3,100 Palestinians, a third of them Hamas members. Israel indicted 1,933 Palestinians for a variety of charges.
Security forces seized 143 rifles, 34 handguns, dozens of pipe bombs, tens of kilograms of explosive material, and shut down three bomb-making labs, according to the Shin Bet.
In addition, 41 Israeli citizens were arrested in 2015 for supporting the Islamic State.
There was no change in the number of Jewish terror attacks between 2014 and 2015 — 16 in both years.
However, “there has been an increase in the severity of the attacks, and in the number of those injured, as a result of Jewish terror,” the Shin Bet says, specifically noting the Duma firebombing attack, which left a Palestinian infant and his parents dead.
— Judah Ari Gross
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