{"id":1340,"date":"2017-06-19T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T15:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/new\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2017-07-13T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T17:51:47","slug":"muslim-arab-offers-cash-reward-for-capture-of-tel-aviv-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/muslim-arab-offers-cash-reward-for-capture-of-tel-aviv-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Arab Offers Cash Reward for Capture of Tel Aviv Terrorist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>A Muslim Arab from Jerusalem has joined the search for Nashat Milhem, who shot\u00a0two Israeli civilians to death in Tel Aviv on Friday and wounded another seven.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr id=\"system-readmore\" class=\"mceItemReadMore\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israel police, aided by <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/watch-the-video-the-world-ignores-the-ethical-idf\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDF soldiers<\/a> and volunteers, are still conducting a large-scale manhunt after <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/police-hunting-for-arab-israeli-murderer-on-the-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nashat Milhem, the Israeli Arab terrorist<\/a> who killed two and injured seven in a Tel Aviv shooting attack on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Muslim Arab from Jerusalem has also joined the efforts to capture Milhem. Mazen Qaq, who acts as the chairman of the Committee of <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/google-maps-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem\u2019s Old City<\/a> Merchants, has offered a substantial cash reward for any viable information which could\u00a0lead to Melhem\u2019s capture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf I saw him today I would capture him myself, or at least do whatever it takes for him to be captured,\u201d Qaq told the Israeli press on Tuesday.It is suspected that Milhem has fled to Palestinian Authority-administered territory in Judea and Samaria. Police announced earlier in the day that Tel Aviv residents can calm down regarding the danger posed by Milhem, who is likely armed and could strike again. \u201cAs of this morning, the tension in Gush Dan [Tel Aviv district] can be significantly reduced,\u201d Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qaq, who is willing to pay $10,000 of his own money as a reward, said\u00a0he considers himself to be an Israeli Arab,\u00a0rather than\u00a0a Palestinian, and that he represents many Arab business owners in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe need to stop with the \u2018Arab against Israeli\u2019 narrative. We are all cousins who wish to live in peace,\u201d said\u00a0Qaq. \u201cThis is a man who acted against citizens of Israel, I will not let a man like that destroy our security and our mutual trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Qaq explained that he was motivated to take this action out of the need to restore the trust and close relations between Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews, which, according to him, have been damaged by the recent wave of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, not everyone is enthusiastic about Qaq\u2019s award initiative. \u201cWhoever is offering money, or whatever initiative someone has taken, is completely irrelevant to the operation,\u201d Chief Inspector Micky Rosenfeld, the Israel police foreign press spokesman, told <em>Tazpit<\/em> Press Service (TPS).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are working on an operational level and on an intelligence level for a realistic solution,\u201d Rosenfeld stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/AC Islam.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By: United with Israel Staff and Michael Zeff, TPS<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim Arab from Jerusalem has joined the search for Nashat Milhem, who shot\u00a0two Israeli civilians to death in Tel Aviv on Friday and wounded another seven. Israel police, aided by IDF soldiers and volunteers, are still conducting a large-scale manhunt after Nashat Milhem, the Israeli Arab terrorist who killed two and injured seven in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5184,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/5184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}