A terrorist slammed his car into a crowd standing on a Jerusalem street corner at an intersection near Jerusalem's Safra Square, wounding 18 before he was shot dead by an IDF officer. Magen David Adom officials said two suffered serious wounds, four were in moderate condition and the rest suffered light injuries. The majority of those wounded are soldiers who were touring the capital.
Reports claim the terrorist is an Arab resident from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, the same neighborhood from where the terrorist who gunned down and murdered eight yeshiva students at the capital's Mercaz Harav yeshiva in March came from.
Jerusalem Police Commander Aharon Franco was unable to confirm the reports, noting that the black BMW car the terrorist drove is registered in the name of a resident of Jabel Mukaber. "It is very difficult to prevent such attacks, they can occur anywhere in the city,"he told reporters at the scene. Franco noted that due to the Ramadan and following the series of terror attacks that occurred in the first half of the year, police and other security forces are deployed throughout the capital including east Jerusalem neighborhoods and continue to maintain a heavy presence in the city. Franco said police had not received any specific alerts of plans by terrorists to launch an attack in Jerusalem.
Security forces at the scene and emergency squads treated the wounded who were evacuated to Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem and Shaárei Tzedek Hospital in the city. The area has been sealed off and additional police units dispatched to the site are distancing the crowd of onlookers from the scene and checking the identities of Arab passersby in the streets nearby.
The attack occurred shortly after 11 pm, just over two months after terrorists rammed tractors into crowded Jerusalem streets killing three.
09/23/08
Margot Dudkevitch
Infolive.tv
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