The same media machine that treats every Israeli strike on terrorists as a war crime shrugs at every Islamic terrorist attack. In the middle of the so-called ‘cease fire’ negotiations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad tried to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in Israel.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) threatened to launch a new campaign of suicide bombings targeting Israelis following a failed attack in Tel Aviv on August 18. In a joint statement, the two Iran-backed terrorist organizations said they would intensify retaliatory operations as long as Israel continues its war against Hamas in Gaza. “Martyrdom operations inside the occupied territories will return to the forefront as long as the occupation’s massacres, the displacement of civilians, and the policy of assassinations continue,” the statement declared.

What was not reported was that the terrorist attack had targeted worshipers in a synagogue.

Rav Avraham Meshulam, the sexton or ‘gabbai’ described how the bomb had gone off dozens of feet away from the synagogue.

“The explosion was louder than I’ve ever heard before,” he said. “The whole shul [synagogue] shook like in a powerful earthquake. The electricity went out in part of the building and the glass of the windows shattered on people. Miraculously there were no people on the street at the time except for one passerby who was injured and we daven for his speedy recovery.”

“They saw on the security cameras that the terrorist had already approached the entrance of the shul, checked out the area and saw that there was a shul there full of people. Afterward, you see him going back ten meters and sitting on a bench and fiddling with the buttons inside his knapsack. Hakadosh Baruch Hu caused him to make a mistake and apparently he accidentally pressed the wrong button, activating the device at that moment and not several minutes afterward. It truly was a neis [miracle]. The building next to the shul, a hardware store, was destroyed – the wall completely exploded. The glass that shattered on us was really marginal, nothing. None of us were hurt, not even a little. We believe that Hakadosh Baruch Hu [the Holy One Blessed Be He] protects us and saved us.”

Rav Meshulam told B’Chadrei Chareidim that the shul [synagogue] has a Yeshivas Bein Hazemanim every day, the largest one in the city, and the shul is especially crowded at night with mispallelim [worshippers] and lomdei Torah [torah scholars studying]– exactly the time that the device exploded.

No one in the media seemed interested in reporting the fact that Hamas had targeted a synagogue for mass murder.