JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Five people were wounded, one of them seriously, as a result of a car-ramming terrorist attack near Mahane Yehuda in the heart of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon.
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The victims include a man in his 70s who is in serious condition, a woman in her 30s in moderate condition, and a man in his 50s and two 25-year-old men who are only lightly wounded, Kan 11 reported.
According to a spokesperson from Hadassah-University Medical Center, one of the victims was hospitalized due to shock.
The terrorist, a resident of east Jerusalem, was shot and killed by a civilian at the scene, according to Israeli media. He allegedly wore a kippah to disguise himself as a Jew.
The terror attack occurred at about 4:20 PM in the area of Davidka Square, a short distance from the Mahaneh Yehuda market. Eyewitnesses said that the terrorist veered his car into the sidewalk while travelling at 70-80 km an hour.
Witnesses at the scene reported hearing gunshots.
“I heard shots and told emergency services where I heard them. I didn’t want to believe it was a terrorist attack.”
“I heard shots and told emergency services where I heard them. I didn’t want to believe it was a terrorist attack,” said one bystander who heard about five shots.
“This won’t end unless we do more mitzvot and bring about the Messiah.”
One man said that it was expected that such an attack would happen before Israel’s Remembrance Day, and said that Arab media would likely portray the terrorist as an innocent victim.
“I was going to the market to buy flags and meat,” said a man. He had gone first to buy rice for his father, a decision he said changed his route, and he attributed that to save his life.
A security guard for the nearby parking lot said that at first, he thought it sounded like a car crash, but heard shots when he went to see what happened.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who spoke at a Remembrance Day ceremony in Jerusalem minutes after the attack took place, said that the ramming “reminds us that the State of Israel was created with great suffering.
“These terror attacks are carried out with the expectation that they will uproot us from here, if they could they would murder us all.”
SELF DEFENSE. It works in HaEretz. It needs to happen here in NY and USA.
So why is he ok with equal rights for suicidal murderers?
Blatant evidence of the importance of owning a weapon.
“the ramming “reminds us that the State of Israel was created with great suffering…”
Yup. It sure was. Lots and lots of suffering inflicted by Zionists on Jews.
Another day and another terror attack.
And this is happening in a land where we were told that no more will we suffer as we used to. We have the mighty IDF Bla bla bla.
No more will Jews be “dependent” but we will be “independent”.
It is high time for all to see especial now when Israeli independence day comes that the Torah forbidden state of Israel is not to the benefit. To the contrary it is a sad thing for Klal Yisroel.
I identify as a suicide bomber respect me or get arrested