A Palestinian ploughed a car into a crowded bus stop in east Jerusalem, killing two people, including a six-year-old girl, and injuring five others before being shot and killed.
The car ramming took place in Ramot, a Jewish territory in east Jerusalem.
Tensions have soared in the Israeli-annexed eastern half of the city, following a Palestinian shooting episode outside a synagogue on January 27 that killed seven people in the most lethal aggression in Jerusalem in over a decade.
The Israeli rescue service identified the two slain as a six-year-old boy and a gentleman in his 20s.
It said medics were treating five injured, including an eight-year-old child in critical condition undergoing CPR.
Others, ages ranging from 10 to 40, were in mild to severe condition. They’d been waiting at the bus stop before the car came colliding to a stop, police said.
Paramedic Lishai Shemesh who happened to be driving by at the time of the attack said the scene was shocking, and he said he was in the car with his wife and children and witnessed a car driving quickly into the bus stop and crushing the people who were waiting there.
The 20-year-old victim was reportedly identified as Alter Shlomo Laderman, who only got married about two months ago.
The alleged terrorist, identified by local media as Hossein Karaka, a 31-year-old Palestinian resident of the Isawiya neighbourhood of east Jerusalem, rammed into a bus stop at the entrance to the Ramot neighbourhood.
A Facebook account reportedly belonging to Karaka posted a string of posts in recent months glorifying Hezbollah and Palestinian terrorists, including a post calling the terrorist who executed a shooting attack at the Shuafat checkpoint last year a hero.
Medic Shraga Rosenthal said the sight upon arriving at the location was shocking and that the children were about six years old, unconscious and with extreme multi-system injuries, which needed CPR to be performed on both children.
Dovi Weisenstern, head of the ZAKA rescue unit, said that this was an extremely difficult scene, a terrorist who violently rammed into a bus station where there were numerous families.
She described it as a difficult scene due to the cries for help from all sides. She added that the terrorist was neutralised and eliminated on the spot.
An off-duty detective shot and killed the suspected assailant at the scene, police added, refusing to immediately identify him.
These were innocent children who were killed for just being Jewish, this is heartbreaking, and political differences aside, what kind of monster deliberately drives into children knowing they would kill them? And to think, terrorists literally train their own children to do this!
Nothing can justify this sort of terrorism or any terrorism for that matter, and they are not just criminals, they’re evil criminals – they’re just terrorist child-hating scum, and what does killing innocents accomplish, nothing. The world has gone mad.
The trouble is, the evil of anti-Semitism is on the rise. And for want of a better word, what a crap world we’re living in!
And what did this man accomplish whilst spending his time on this earth? Oh yes, he rammed and killed a child with a vehicle – what a warped and twisted mind some people possess.
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