Hapoel Umm al-Fahm chairman: "We are back to the days before the terrorist attacks before the assassination of Rabin"

On the morning after the horrific attack carried out by the residents of Umm al-Fahm in Hadera, Abu Alam declares: "People in the city in shock", tells of the family of the murdered man: In the Arab sector: "It was clear that in the end he would also be directed to the other side"

Yaniv Tuchman

28/03/2022

Monday, March 28, 2022, 11:00 p.m.

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In the video: Documentation of the shooting attack in Hadera (Photo: Shlomi Gabay, Yoav Itiel, spokeswoman for the Israel Police and documentation on social networks according to section 27A of the Copyright Law)

"People here in Umm al-Fahm are in shock," Abu Alam tells Walla!

Morning sports (Monday).

It was supposed to be a good morning for him.

Last night, Hapoel Umm al-Fahm defeated Kfar Qassem away and he, as chairman of the team, gave gas in the direction of renewed chances of promotion, but then the good news reached him.

"We finished the game and I did not know anything yet. I came out of the stadium and someone shouted at me: 'You know that Umm al-Fahm is closed. There was an attack in Hadera and the terrorists from Umm al-Fahm. I felt like a big stone was thrown at my head."

Not only as the contractor of the Abu Alam building in good contact with the Jews.

30 years ago he lived in Tel Aviv.

He even remembers Arlozorov Street and the building number.

"I went through all the horrific attacks in Tel Aviv in the early 1990s after the Oslo Accords," he reveals.

"I lived in Tel Aviv for three years. I worked in the city and enjoyed every moment. What happens in the last week with these two horrific attacks takes me back 30 years to the days of the exploding buses."

"I swear to you that people are shocked by what has happened. This is a really good time between Arabs and Jews in Umm al-Fahm. We also have a great mayor who is very supportive of coexistence. There are budgets, there is another education. I am a person who advocates education as a solution to this situation. Go somewhere else. Then this boom and you say to yourself who's one of the murdered? I'm most in touch with Fallah's family. "It's wonderful that I lost a son. It hurts me. I've been in touch with Sheikh Fallah for more than 15 years and all the connection came from football."

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"Assures you that at the killers' funerals you will hardly see people."

Abu Alam (Photo: Official website, Hapoel Umm al-Fahm)

Could it be that you are exceptional and do not represent the majority?

"I and the mayor of Umm al-Fahm represent 99 percent of the opinion in this city. I say this responsibly and I assure you that at the funerals of the killers you will see almost no people."

"The truth must be told. One of the terrorists went to Syria in 2016. He was arrested in Turkey and was in prison. Why was he not supervised? Why was he not put in for a few years? The same terrorist from a girl who carried out a terrorist attack in Be'er Sheva. ".

"I know. We know everyone here. It's not something organized within Umm al-Fahm. It's an act of individuals. It's like Baruch Goldstein decided to do what he did. It's not something political here in Umm al-Fahm. I'm dying for you to come to Umm al-Fahm now and see "That many people's faces fell last night and see it this morning."

"No. Umm al-Fahm is already the size of her room and they are not in my area."

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"I have 11 Jewish players and 3 staff members."

Hapoel Umm al-Fahm (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

I guess the Jewish actors are afraid to come to town today.

"I want to take the team out for two days, three out of town so things can calm down a bit. I never count how many Jewish players and staff I have, but if you want to know then there are 11 Jewish players and 3 staff members including coach Shlomi Dora. All of them. "My children. I do not want one mother to fear that her child will come to Umm al-Fahm today. I also have a game against Ness Ziona on Friday and we need to see what is being done at the preparatory meeting with the police. I want everyone to feel safe."

"We must. The sane and good majority can not let these extremists win. I can not live without you here and you can not live without me. Supreme Court, we live on a very small plot of land. Jews and Arabs must know how to live together. It hurts me that people are murdered. I lost a brother who drowned in the sea and lost a sister two months ago from cancer. I know what pain is. I do not want anyone to go through that sadness What is his nationality. I do not want anyone to go through my daily suffering. There is no morning when I wake up and I do not think about my sister and brother. I see my mother and my father how they suffer. Lord of the world, what goes through your mind when you go out in such an attack? Are you going to kill a child? Kill a father? I can not digest what these people are? You call yourself a human being? You destroy families, also your family, and you call yourself a human being? ".

"You are just now touching on the root of the problem. There are weapons in the Arab sector. The government has woken up a bit lately and started working a bit but it was clear to everyone that at the end of the day this weapon will be directed to the other side as well. This weapon has killed 1,000 Arabs. "The State of Israel also has a responsibility to take this weapon. They threw us into the backyard. Where is the state's part in this?"

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