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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Stabber ‘was spurred by Gaza war, paradise’
Hamza Matrouk, the terrorist who stabbed commuters this morning, tells Shin Bet interrogators that he carried out the attack because of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer.
He also says he was inspired by the unrest over Temple Mount, and by radical Muslim programming talking about promises of paradise, the Ynet news site reports.
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