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Last update - 02:48 23/09/2008
19 hurt as terrorist plows car into Jerusalem crowd
By Jonathan Lis and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents, and The Associated Press
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023443.html
At least 19 people were wounded at around 11 P.M. Monday night when a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem drove his car into a crowd of Israel Defense Forces soldiers at a busy intersection in the capital.
Two of the wounded were in serious condition, four were moderately hurt and the rest were lightly wounded, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
Most of the wounded were IDF troops on their way to the Western Wall to mark the upcoming Jewish New Year when the attack at the Tzahal intersection, close to the Old City, took place.
Jerusalem Police Commander Ilan Franco said the driver of the black BMW was shot and killed by an IDF officer who was among the crowd targeted in the attack. Franco said the driver was apparently acting alone.
"A man in a vehicle struck a number of people in Tzahal Square," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "We can confirm it was a terror attack. The man was shot and killed."
Israeli TV reported that the car was registered to a resident of Jabel Mukaber, an Arab village in East Jerusalem. The vehicle had a yellow Israeli license plate, the Associated Press news agency reported.
A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the attack, Channel 2 television said.
An Israel Radio reporter on the scene described a large group of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews chasing an Arab into the Old City after the attack.
The emergency call came into Magen David Adom at 10:55 P.M., but it described the incident as traffic accident. Only when the ambulance arrived did it become clear that it was a terrorist attack.
"I saw the car coming quickly and hit a group of soldiers and students standing there," an eyewitness said. "It happened very fast. It was impossible to know beforehand that this is what he intended to do."
Rescue personnel evacuated all of the victims to hospitals in the city. Local TV showed footage of a wounded soldier on a stretcher, holding his head, as he was wheeled into an ambulance.
Dr. Yuval Weiss, the director of Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, said that 10 victims had been treated at the hospital, all of them fully conscious.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak released a statement in the wake of the attack demanding a speedup of procedures to allow the destruction of homes of Palestinian terrorists to act as a deterrence. Several years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that destroying houses does not deter terrorists, and the practice was halted.
Jerusalem police said that though there was no prior intelligence indicating a possible terror attack, the level of alert had been raised in recent days due to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the upcoming Jewish holidays.
This is the third time a vehicle has been used in a terror attack in Jerusalem in as many months. In July, two East Jerusalem residents carried out separate attacks with vehicles used in ongoing construction work in the city, killing three people and wounding many others.
Two of the wounded were in serious condition, four were moderately hurt and the rest were lightly wounded, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
Most of the wounded were IDF troops on their way to the Western Wall to mark the upcoming Jewish New Year when the attack at the Tzahal intersection, close to the Old City, took place.
Jerusalem Police Commander Ilan Franco said the driver of the black BMW was shot and killed by an IDF officer who was among the crowd targeted in the attack. Franco said the driver was apparently acting alone.
"A man in a vehicle struck a number of people in Tzahal Square," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "We can confirm it was a terror attack. The man was shot and killed."
Israeli TV reported that the car was registered to a resident of Jabel Mukaber, an Arab village in East Jerusalem. The vehicle had a yellow Israeli license plate, the Associated Press news agency reported.
A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the attack, Channel 2 television said.
An Israel Radio reporter on the scene described a large group of mostly ultra-Orthodox Jews chasing an Arab into the Old City after the attack.
The emergency call came into Magen David Adom at 10:55 P.M., but it described the incident as traffic accident. Only when the ambulance arrived did it become clear that it was a terrorist attack.
"I saw the car coming quickly and hit a group of soldiers and students standing there," an eyewitness said. "It happened very fast. It was impossible to know beforehand that this is what he intended to do."
Rescue personnel evacuated all of the victims to hospitals in the city. Local TV showed footage of a wounded soldier on a stretcher, holding his head, as he was wheeled into an ambulance.
Dr. Yuval Weiss, the director of Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, said that 10 victims had been treated at the hospital, all of them fully conscious.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak released a statement in the wake of the attack demanding a speedup of procedures to allow the destruction of homes of Palestinian terrorists to act as a deterrence. Several years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that destroying houses does not deter terrorists, and the practice was halted.
Jerusalem police said that though there was no prior intelligence indicating a possible terror attack, the level of alert had been raised in recent days due to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and the upcoming Jewish holidays.
This is the third time a vehicle has been used in a terror attack in Jerusalem in as many months. In July, two East Jerusalem residents carried out separate attacks with vehicles used in ongoing construction work in the city, killing three people and wounding many others.
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