New Scapegoat for Terror in Europe is the Old Scapegoat--Guess Who?

Europe is still in a state of shock after the horrific murders of innocent, unarmed people--mostly young people--in Paris. The latest figures are 129 dead and hundreds wounded. As of today, the French police have conducted an operation in St Denis, a Parisian suburb. Two terrorists are dead and some people have been taken into custody. The police suffered casualties.

ISIS took responsibility for the attack and, according to media reports, the terrorists were in contact with their operatives in Syria. European security officers were even sure for a while that the key terrorist who planned the coordinated attacks had already escaped to Syria.

But to where, pray tell, has 'enlightened' Europe shifted the blame? You guessed it, the Israel-Palestinian conflict. There is only flimsy evidence, if any hard evidence at all, to any Palestinian connection.

ISIS itself has attributed their terrorist attack in Paris to French bombings in Syria:

Let France and those who walk in its path know that they will remain on the top of the list of targets of the Islamic State, and that the smell of death will never leave their noses as long as they lead the convoy of the Crusader campaign, and dare to curse our Prophet, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, and are proud of fighting Islam in France and striking the Muslims in the land of the Caliphate with their planes, which did not help them at all in the streets of Paris and its rotten alleys. This attack is the first of the storm and a warning to those who wish to learn.

Read the whole ISIS statement here. Not one word by ISIS about Palestine.

I saw one unsubstantiated report that said that a Palestinian might have been one of the eight or nine attackers. The fluid migration of Islamic terrorists from one Islamic conflict to another, however, makes this flimsy and almost inconsequential evidence of any 'Palestinian' connection, even if true.

But, never fear, the official elite already has the answer: look for the Jewish connection.

Why do I call them the 'official' elite? Because they hold (or have held) official positions, either appointed or elected. As such, they have easy access to mass media, and their voice carries influence and molds public opinion. This is what makes this elite so pernicious and dangerous. They are deflecting the consequences of their own failures and misguided worldview onto the State of Israel, the only state in the world where Jews can actually defend themselves by force of arms. They would deprive us of this, too.

In the present crisis, the first to come forth with the convenient 'answer' was the Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, already well-known for her antipathy toward Israel. When asked on Swedish Television whether she was worried are by radicalization Sweden youth who are fighting for ISIS, she made the convenient 'connection' between radical Swedish youth and the Palestinian situation. Wallstroem said:

Obviously, we have reason to be worried, not just in Sweden but across the world, because there are so many that are being radicalized. Here, once again, we are brought back to situations like the one in the Middle East, where not least, the Palestinians see that there isn’t a future. We [The Palestinians] must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence.

To the Israeli Foreign Ministry's credit, it was quick to protest, inviting the Swedish ambassador for clarifications and elicited a statement from the Swedes that no connection had been made between the two situations.

Next to dutifully follow is the chairman of the Dutch Socialist Party, Jan Marijnissen. He said the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris acted in part over frustration over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He was interviewed on the Dutch radio station NPO Radio1 on Monday, November 16. The following is a summary of what he said:

Their [The terrorists'] behavior eventually is connected also to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” said Marijnissen about the perpetrators. “The guys – I assume they were guys – who carried out the attacks probably come from a group of outraged people from the French suburbs,” he said. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict, he added, “is the growth medium for such an attack.

In days gone by, Christian Europe had the Jew as a convenient scapegoat for random unexplained murders, child molestation, poverty, war, economic crises, natural disasters and whatever other problems needed a quick fix. Rabble rousing officials, royal or otherwise, could set the crowd on the Jews to expend their rage and blood lust in murder, robbery and expulsion of Jews.

European Jewish Congress (EJC) President Moshe Kantor called Wallstrom's remarks 'borderline racist'.  Dr. Kantor said:

She [Wallstrom] has completely ignored the remarks made by those behind the attacks, Islamic State organization, almost as if depriving them of any agency for their reactions. This is a deeply troubling worldview and borderline racist. 

She ignores the tens of conflicts around the world involving Muslims and cherry-picks the only conflict involving Jews, as if to once again suggest, perhaps not consciously, the age old idea that the Jews are always central to international affairs in a malevolent way, and behind every event the hand of Jews can be found.

Implicit in the words of Wallstrom and Marijnissen is that Jewish Israel bears responsibility for the terrorist bloodbath in Paris. By extension, there is even justification to the continued attacks--stabbings, car bombs, shootings, and driving cars into crowds of Jews--on innocent Jews in Israel, for if such is the consequence in Europe what would be the result in Palestine itself!

Thus, a new scapegoat has been discovered to account for the woes of Europe. Not so remarkably, the new scapegoat looks much like the old one.
 

Why this Bloody Palestinian Stabbing Intifada?

For the past few weeks, dozens of innocent Israelis living their daily humdrum lives have become victims to surprise knife attacks by Palestinians. Usually the attacker whips out a sharp butcher knife and aims for the jugular of his or her (there are also female stabbers too) in an attempt to sever this important vein so that the victim bleeds to death. Sometimes, they aim for the back, which is a larger and easier target, since the victim is looking the other way, or the stomach, if facing the victim. Palestinians have been circulating anatomical diagrams of the 'best' anatomical places to insert a knife.

 

Israeli security has classified these attackers as 'lone wolves,' persons not hitherto known as a security risk and not associated with one of the militant Palestinian organizations or having any support infrastructure. What had originally been assumed to be a temporary spate of attacks has now turned into a wave of dozens of attacks not only in the 'occupied' territories but also in major cities of Israel. The Israeli victims have been not only soldiers but also civilian women and children on the streets of Israel. A couple of days ago a Palestinian stabbed an 80-year-old woman. How could this frail old woman have been conceived to have been an epitome of the occupation in this deranged attacker's mind?

In the last few days. the attacks seem to be tapering off, but there are still stabbings and attacks with other weapons (such as cars), and there is a continued risk of the wave turning into a tsunami. It is valid to ask, why has this stabbing intifada occurred?

 

On the Palestinian side, there are a myriad of explanations: the occupation, frustration, rage, no hope, defiling Al-Aqsa mosque, Israel's changing the status quo in the Al-Aqsa compound. But we have heard all this before, and all these charges existed even before the current intifada. So what is different?

 

On the Israeli side, most frequently cited is the virulent anti-Israel propaganda generated by all the Palestinian media as well as the consistent lies, which can be loosely grouped under the term 'incitement.' Most prominent recent lie is that of the Palestinian Authority President Abbas accusing the Israelis of killing a terrorist Palestinian 13-year-old boy who knifed an Israeli boy riding on his bicycle. The next day, Israeli media showed the Palestinian terrorist boy in hospital recuperating from his wounds. Of course. there were no apologies nor any corrections forthcoming from the Palestinian side, although they did find it necessary to doctor the English transcript of Abbas' speech, which was distributed to the English-speaking media. But the truth got out; the Palestinians couldn't fake the audio recording. But the Palestinians have been lying for years, even before the current intifada.  So what is different?

 

If we look at the ages of these 'lone-wolf' attackers, we see that they are rather young, generally in their teens or early twenties (some have been older, of course). The youngest was thirteen-years-old, and he was accompanied by his 15-year-old cousin, who killed and was killed ny Israeli security. In other words, this is the Palestinian generation that was educated within the Palestinian educational system after the Oslo Accords beginning in 1993. Brought up on a full syllabus of hatred, military kindergartens and martial youth movements, jihad, Islamic martyr (shahid) glorification, perverted history, all of which has been incessantly pumped into them and reinforced year-after-year; the result should be no surprise. What this young generation has 'learned' in the Palestinian educational system has been exchanged among themselves in the social media and exacerbated by Palestine Authority and Islamic incitement in the media, mosques and other institutions. So, it should be no surprise that these 'lone wolves' had no obvious connection with the traditional militant and terror organizations.

Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus presented his organization’s report on Palestinian Authority education to the Israeli Knesset a few days ago. The following is the the Jerusalem Post's summary from the Knesset discussion:

The report documents that in formal and informal educational frameworks, killers of Israelis are portrayed as heroes and role models, and that children are taught that Israel will eventually be replaced by “Palestine.”

At least 25 Palestinian Authority schools are named after terrorists; three are named after Dalal Mughrabi, who led the most lethal terrorist attack in Israeli history in 1978, killing 37 civilians, 12 of them children.

Marcus showed the MKs (Members of Knesset) a film from PA television, in which a student expressed pride “to attend the Dalal Mughrabi School, which bears this pioneering name,” and another student said her “life’s ambition is to reach the level that the martyr fighter Dalal Mughrabi reached.”

Another clip from televised news in the PA showed a boy saying he learned in school to “fight the Jews, kill them and defeat them,” and another told children that Jews are “Satan with a tail.”

The report also contains chapters on incitement in Palestinian textbooks, educational materials glorifying Hitler, and the PA policy of blocking joint peace-building activities between Palestinian and Israeli children.

Marcus explained that the messages Palestinian children are receiving are nationalist – that Israel is not legitimate on any borders and its existence since 1948 is an occupation – and anti-Semitic – that Jews are evil by nature, descendants of monkeys and pigs, and fated to be killed by Muslims.

Does anyone now think that there could be any hope for peace with this young  Palestinian generation? Would any of these young Palestinians honor a peace agreement signed by the octogenarian leader the Palestine Authority?

Saudi Arabia and Israel Move Closer Together

Billionaire Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal: will side with Israel if there is a new Palestinian uprising; Saudi Arabia has reached political maturity and can make a durable alliance with the Jewish nation

Poll: 24% of Saudi people see Israel as an ally against Iran

 

The Saudi strategic position has become tenuous in the last couple of years. The Iranian Nuclear deal has been signed paving the way for Iran as a nuclear power; the Saudis are involved in a military coalition in support of the legitimate Sunni Yemeni government against Shi'ite Houthi rebels; and the US is fast becoming self-sufficient in energy, and less inclined to put boots on the ground for Saudia Arabia. Thus, Saudi Arabia has been casting around for allies in what promises to be a long and drawn-out strategic and tactical battle against nuclear-ambitious Iran's push for Middle East domination. This week there were some noteworthy developments.

According to Kuwaiti Al Qabas Arabic daily, October 27, Saudi Prince and entrepreneur, al-Waleed bin Talal, has stated that his country must reconsider its regional commitments and devise a new strategy to combat Iran's increasing influence in the Gulf States.  Prince  al-Waleed bin Talal believes that Riyadh and Tel Aviv should form a defense pact to deter possible Iranian moves considering developments in Syria and Moscow's military intervention.

The Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA) quoted the Saudi Prince:

The whole Middle-East dispute is tantamount to a matter of life and death for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from my vantage point, and I know that  the Iranians seek to unseat the Saudi regime by playing the Palestinian card. Hence, to foil their plots Saudi Arabia and Israel must bolster their relations and form a united front to stymie Tehran's ambitious agenda.

The Prince added that Riyadh and Tel Aviv must achieve a modus vivendi, because Saudi policy in regard to the Arab-Israeli crisis is no longer tenable. The Prince continued that Iran seeks to buttress its presence in the Mediterranean by supporting the Assad regime in Syria,  and to the chagrin of Riyadh and its sister Gulf sheikdoms, Putin's Russia has become a real co-belligerent force in the Syrian 4-year-old civil war by attacking CIA-trained rebels.

Thus, it is of paramount importance that a Saudi-Israeli nexus frustrate the developing Russia-Iran-Hezbollah axis. The Prince said:

I will side with the Jewish nation and its democratic aspirations in case of outbreak of a Palestinian Intifada (uprising) and  I shall exert all my influence to break any ominous Arab initiatives set to condemn Tel Aviv, because I deem the Arab-Israeli entente and future friendship necessary to impede the Iranian dangerous encroachment.

It is very significant that the Prince is talking about siding with the Jewish nation not some amorphous 'Israeli political entity.' The Prince also stated that Iranian influence in Bahrain, which has a US Sixth Fleet base, affects Saudi vital interests and is worrying.

The interview with the Prince was not the only good news for Israel. A new survey reveals rarely seen aspects of public political opinion inside Saudi Arabia.

The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) at IDC Herzliya and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee conducted a random poll in Arabic in Saudi Arabia from the end of May and into June. It was controlled for gender, cell phone/land line numbers and urban/rural areas. The poll and its results achieved extensive media coverage in leading media organizations around the world and in Israel, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fox News, ABC News, Channel 2 News and others.  

Among the key findings:

• Only 18.4% of Saudis consider Israel as the biggest threat to Saudi Arabia
• 23.7% believe Saudi Arabia should fight Iran alongside Israel.

 Other findings were:

• 85.5% support the Saudi-Arab Peace Initiative
• 53% of those polled believe Iran is the biggest threat to Saudi Arabia; ISIS polled second at 22.1%; as mentioned, only 18.4% of Saudis consider Israel to be Saudi Arabia's biggest threat
• 52.6% believe Saudi Arabia needs to acquire a nuclear weapon if Iran does
• 70.9% believe Iran is a threat to Saudi sovereignty

Growing common interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Emirates increase the possibility of forcing the Palestinians to the negotiation table and their finally recognizing Israel as a Jewish state and making an agreement that will include ending the conflict and renouncing all their claims against Israel.

What is Sweden Coming To?

Sweden's anti-Israel attitude shows the same misguided mindset and blinker vision as its attitude toward its own domestic racism.

When I was in Sweden many years ago it was delightful. The people were wonderful. I thought that I had stumbled into paradise. I was just another disheveled trekker back then. I had all my possessions in a backpack, I was a little dirty and could not shower regularly. But people in suits patiently stopped to give me directions; people smiled at me and were polite.

But I don't think that I would like living in Sweden nowadays.

Ingrid Carlqvist informs us that in Sweden racist acts are considered racism only if the victims are not white.

On Thursday, October 22, Sweden was shocked by yet another act of madness apparently connected to multiculturalism. Anton Lundin Pettersson, 21, dressed in a black coat and Darth Vader helmet, and armed with a sword and a knife, entered the Kronan school in Trollhättan and started killing. By the time the police shot him down, he had killed one person and wounded three others severely. One of the wounded later died in the hospital.

The newscasts and television debates were devoted to the attack and focused on the racist motive. Ingrid Carlqvist continues:

In many respects, the attack [at the Kronan school] was similar to the one in the Västerås IKEA on August 10 -- random people killed because of the color of their skin. In IKEA, whites were killed by a black assailant; at the school, blacks were killed by a white assailant.The reaction, however, was completely different.

After IKEA, there was dead silence. But this school attack is all over the news. A white perpetrator killing black victims is apparently considered far worse than a black perpetrator killing white victims.

Ingrid Carlqvist notes that after the double murders at IKEA, there were no such discussions about racist motivation. No one condemned the racist motive of the IKEA murderer, Abraham Ukbagabir, who, when questioned by the police, said that he had chosen his victims because they "looked Swedish."

Carlqvist says that Sweden's Prime Minister Löfven condemns all violence from Swedes but ignores violence perpetrated by immigrants such as the burning of six housing facilities for asylum seekers.

Sweden's anti-Israel attitude is manifest and shows the same misguided mindset and blinker vision as its attitude toward its own domestic racism.

The Swedish government, which was the first European state to recognize officially the Palestinian state, has not issued a condemnation of Palestinian attacks on Israelis in the current terrorism wave. Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom has talked about violence on both sides in general terms. Her comments were neutral and vague, not mentioning who perpetrated the terror attacks. This attitude is reminiscent of the way that the Swedish Government is handling internal racial violence (as described above).

Additionally, Scandinavian Airlines, the national airline, initially announced that it will no longer be flying to Israel due to poor profits and "political(!) instability in the region". The airlines have since backtracked since there was push-back from Israel.

Israeli representatives in Sweden have observed that there is currently an anti-Israel consensus in the country and that politicians are not publicly willing to defend Israel. It seems that Swedish silence is due partly to political motives: The Swedes are interested in obtaining UN Security Council seat, so they are avoiding angering Arab nations by condemning Palestinian terrorism. This diplomatic consideration alone, however, is not sufficient to explain the widespread anti-Israel attitude throughout Swedish society and Swedish institutions.

Ongoing anti-Israel coverage in Swedish media ignores Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. In the Swedish media, these attacks are at most perpetrated by "Palestinian militants," not terrorists acting against unarmed, innocent civilians (even if we disregard, for the sake of argument, attacks on soldiers). Thus, in the beginning of October, the Swedish news agency TT reported the stabbing murder of Nahmia Lavi and Aharon Bennett as "Palestinian shot in Jerusalem." The Palestinian in question was 19-year-old terrorist Mohand Halabi, who had killed the two people.

An anti-Semitic Swedish film, The Dead Still Have a Name, produced by a Swedish organization that organizes flotillas to Gaza, draws comparisons between Israel's actions toward Palestinians and the Holocaust. The city of Gothenburg has decided to include this politically-motivated film as part of its school curriculum. So far, it has not been broadcast on television but only screened privately.

Finally, the Swedish church systematically works against Israel. The church's Swedish Theological Institute operates in Jerusalem, but instead of dealing with relations between Judaism and Christianity – as its mission statement dictates – it is increasingly becoming involved in politics and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The institute hosts Swedish anti-Israel activists, who come to the Palestinian territories to report on cases of so-called Palestinian abuse.

Palestinian Distortion of Stabbings Finally Gets Israeli Mainstream Media Attention

In my last posts, I have been focusing on how the Palestinians media perceive the stabbings of Jews by Palestinians. I devoted two posts to the Afula attempted stabbing by an Arab woman, who was unsuccessful in her stabbing attempt and was shot in the legs by security personnel to neutralize her. I also devoted one post to the explosion of a car carrying gas canisters and incendiary materials driven by an Arab woman. It is true that these were small incidents (and involved no fatalities) in the current large wave of Palestinian Terror that is sweeping Israel in which Jews (including innocent women and children) are being targeted by Palestinian terrorists;  my intention is to show how the blatantly terrorist event is perceived by the Palestinian propaganda machine and how it is explained to Palestinians and the world media.

I have purposely taken micro events because they are more manageable for a blog such as this. We have seen that the Palestinian media and Arab Members of the Knesset invert the facts so that the 'victim' is the Palestinian knifer/terrorist and the Jewish victim becomes 'the aggressor'. Ahmed Tibi persistently shouts 'we are the victims'. He knows that the media is the message; the victim and underdog automatically generates sympathy.

Thus, Israeli Arab members of Knesset and Palestinians call shooting a stabber in the legs murder, even though no one was killed. A policeman who was doing his job (he stopped the car because there was a traffic violation; he didn't know it was being driven by an Arab) and was a good Samaritan and wanted to put out the fire in the Arab woman's car (he didn't know she was a terrorist intending to blow up her car) is described as preventing the woman from getting out of the car with her child (there was no child). The Palestinian news agency Ma'an had no problem printing the detailed account of an anonymous Palestinian 'witness'. (How are you going to argue with someone that's anonymous?).

In the Palestinian propaganda war, facts have only marginal importance and a picture that can be 'interpreted' for their own propaganda and political purposes is the primary exhibit of their so-called 'truth'.

I was happy to see that Ynet is finally beginning to pay some attention to how Palestinian propaganda is distorting the facts. The truth is the mainstream media coverage of this important issue for Israel is rather thin. If you are interested in detailed examples of distorted and malicious Palestinian propaganda, see Palestine Media Watch here.

Palestinians Say Wounding Afula Female Terrorist is 'Murder' - Follow-up

On October 9, Assara Zidan, a single mom who studies at a local college and is separated from her husband, entered the Central Bus Station of Afula, a major town in Israel's Jezreel Valley region, and near one of the bus platforms, screamed and drew a knife on a soldier. Security personnel shot her in the legs to bring her down when she refused to drop her knife.
After the video was uploaded to the Internet, the pro-Palestinian talkbackers 'interpreted' the video as showing the lady holding her hands up trying to surrender, and the cruel Israelis shooting her.
Well, sorry dear talkbackers, even the Israeli Palestinian leadership doesn't buy the 'holding up her hands, trying to surrender' business (see below).
The Palestinian leadership, however, does indeed claim that it was a 'cold-blooded shooting' with intent to 'murder' (see my earlier post).
On October 11, journalist Attila Somfalvi interviewed Dr Basel Ghattas a member of Balad party and currently serving as a member of the Israeli Knesset for the Arab Joint List alliance.
Consider the following exchange (edited because of shouting and simultaneous overtalk). You can listen to the original here):

Dr Basel Ghattas: Whoever shoots with intent to kill ... police officers shot a young woman in Afula, even if she has a knife in her hand ... shot to kill ...
Attila Somfalvi: They shot her in her feet. She held a knife in her hand and tried to stab a soldier.
Dr. Basel Ghattas: For this you have to kill her.
Attila Somfalvi: She was not killed. She is being treated in a hospital.

Masud Ghnaim and Ahmed Tibi are also part of this chorus, as are others.

And so the lies are propagated, morphing relentlessly into a Palestinian 'narrative' that bears little resemblance to what actually happened and magnifying a distorted bogeyman of Israel and Jews as an object of hatred and rage.

Palestinians: Wounding Afula Female Terrorist is 'Murder'

Have you read the title of this post correctly? Can it be? Read on and follow this breaking story.

Ynet reported that on October 9, Assara Zidan, a single mom who studies at a local college and is separated from her husband, entered the Central Bus Station of Afula, a major town in Israel's Jezreel Valley region, and near one of the bus platforms, drew a knife on a soldier and began to scream. Luckily, there were security personnel nearby who saw the knife in her hand. As it turns out, there is actually a video of part of this event. From the video, it seems clear that the woman in traditional Muslim garb still has the knife raised in her hand. Furthermore, the police are calling to her probably to drop the weapon and lie down, which she does not do. She is kept at bay for a while by soldiers, till a policeman arrives, and she is shot several times in her lower body. She was taken to the hospital in 'moderate' condition. In situations where it is possible to neutralize a terrorist without shooting to kill, it is commendable that Israeli security forces routinely do so. On the British Independent newspaper site, the pro-Palestinian talkback interpretation is that she had her hands up, but I think its clear that she was wielding a knife and did not want to put it down. Finally, Israel Today informs us that the family claims that she had mental problems.

So, what was the reaction of Israeli Palestinians to this act of terrorism?

Her friends said, "This is a cold-blooded shooting, They [the Israelis] want to force us into becoming terrorists."

Another source in the Arab sector said: "The Government has given the green light to murder Arabs."

'Cold-blooded shooting'? 'Murder Arabs''? I ask you, dear reader, does this response, in tone or substance, bear any relation to the events that actually occurred. Is not a knife in the hand of a screaming terrorist who attempted to attack a solder and refuses to disarm a sufficient pretext to shoot to neutralize that person? Was anybody actually murdered here?

Well, for Palestinians, if they can't get their terrorist dead, at least they can shout 'murder'.

On October 10, at a large demonstration of Israeli Arabs in Nazareth, this so-called 'unprovoked' shooting of Assara was protested. So, I suppose this perversion of truth will join the already crowded list of Palestinian myths and lies intended to defame the good name of Israel, the only viable, true democracy in the Middle East.

By the way, it is well known that in Arab society a single woman with a child is considered an outcast. In the past, some of these women have committed terrorist acts to regain their status and redeem themselves. Female terrorists with this profile have in the past murdered many people in a single terrorist act by blowing themselves up in a crowded public place. There have also been many cases of stabbings and other terrorist acts committed by such female Palestinians.

Palestinian Fabrication of Settler Child Shooting Not Corrected by Palestinian News Agency

The Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported today (12.40 p.m.) the story of a child shot  by an Israeli settler in the so-called occupied territories near Kalkilya. The Palestinian 'narrative' was that a settler car stopped near the six-year-old boy, shot him and drove away. The older brother saw that the car had Israeli license plates. Other media also picked up and printed the story.
The Ma'an agency 'updated' the story at 17.50 p.m. to show that the report was 'single source', relying only on the 'family's' version. It also reported that the IDF was investigating.
The truth came out this afternoon even before the Ma'an 'update'.
About 16.00 Haaretz and Ynet both reported the results of the IDF investigation. It turns out that the child shot himself while playing with the gun of his brother, who serves in the Palestinian Authority police.
The boy's family fabricated the story (you can also say lied) to prevent the older brother from getting into trouble and to get an added Palestinian Authority stipend as an unfortunate 'terror victim' of Israeli settlers.
When I posted this at 7:35 pm on October 3, Ma'an has still not added the results of the IDF investigation that it had reported was being conducted.
The child is reportedly currently in stable but still serious condition and on life support.
When I checked back this morning, I saw that Ma'an left the original story was still intact, but it had a link that 'challenges' that version in a different article at 10.59 pm, Israeli army rejects involvement of Israelis in Qalqiliya shooting, even though the original story had already been preempted. Finally, they do admit in the challenge that:

Palestinian Authority security sources said that they were following up on the child's death after initial reports from relatives appeared to be false.

The Israel Today print edition, on Oct 4, 2015, reports that "Palestinian sources" are furious with the family for lying and for the older son's negligence with his police weapon.
So much for 'timely and objective' news reporting by this Palestine-based news source. Of course, the false story still exists on the Ma'an site and is reverberating on the internet, which is, of course, what the Palestinian media are really interested in. The token link to the IDF challenge exists to keep up the appearances of perfunctory objectivity.
The real story of violence on October 3 was the murder of two Israelis and injury of two more in Jerusalem.