Six people, including three IDF soldiers, were injured in a ramming attack at the Maccabim checkpoint on the Jerusalem 443 highway near Modiin on Thursday morning.
A terrorist driving a truck rammed into and ran over off-duty soldiers walking on the side of the road near the checkpoint. He then fled the scene and continued driving toward the Chashmonaim intersection, several miles away. By the time, he got to the checkpoint, the security forces had been briefed about the attack and immediately opened fire at the truck, neutralizing the terrorist.
One soldier was critically injured and two were seriously injured. An Israeli couple, both aged 25, were lightly injured after their car was hit by the terrorist, and a Palestinian teenager near the scene was lightly injured. Paramedics provided emergency medical aid at the scene and evacuated the victims to Sheba, Asaf HaRofeh, and Shaare Tzedek Hospitals. Sadly, the critically injured soldier died of his wounds shortly later.
In the wake of the attack, the highway between the two checkpoints was closed to traffic.
The terrorist was later identified as a 41-year-old Palestinian who had a valid permit to work in Israel.
It is the fourth terror attack in less than 24 hours, following the attack at the light rail station in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, an attack against IDF soldiers at Kever Yosef on Wednesday night, and an attempted ramming attack near Chevron on Wednesday afternoon.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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3 Responses
STOP THE INSANITY.
THROW OUT ALL THESE TERRORISTS.
DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL MURDERERS.
WHEN IS THE GOVERNMENT UNDERSTATN THAT DESTROYING THE HOUSE OF THE TERRORIST DOES NOT DO ANYTHING. THEY WILL GET MONEY FROM THE INNTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND BULD A BETTER HOUSE.
THIS IS INSANE.
Abba Ebban said: Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews!
the same can be said; Peace will come when Arabs want to make a living more than they hate the Jews!
This guy as many others before him, was working legally in Israel and could make a decent living, more than most of his friends, but instead he chose to murder some Jews.
And the US and Europe continue to send billions to support that self-inflicted poverty.
Wait !!!
Wait a minute !!!
Why everyone is complaining?
As long as Lapid Ben Lapid
Ehud Barak
Olmert
Antifa
Human Rights Watch HRW
State Department
and other benevolent groups and organizations are undermining the Jewish State with funds and support of US and EU and
Jews are silent and playing victimhood
What do you expect?
You Jews want to seat comfortably in your homes and be served candies and hot Kuggel kidish from ANTI JEWISH AND RABID JEWISH JEW HATERS AND ANTI SEMITES AND NEO NAZI WHO WRAP THEMSELVES WITH ISRAELI FLAGS AND CALL ELLECTED PM Hitler and everyone is silent?
Shame on US for not learning any lessons from Holocaust.
They are right
Shame on us for sitting quietly and oblivious to the conditions around us.
You Comfortable Jews want peace?
Then fight for it like your life depended on it.
Because the red lines have been crossed from the Jewish Jew haters.
The frum community has lost the last chance and opportunity to reach out to the secular. In the last 75 years
Instead of inviting them to your homes for shabbos you yelled at them like they were dogs and yelled out “SHABBOS SHABBOS”,
Now the “slaves are ruling over us” so don’t complain now.