Israel: Car rams bus stop in Jerusalem, killing two

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OKLAHOMAN.COM | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2023 | 7A Isabel Debre ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM - A Palestinian plowed a car into a crowded bus stop in east Jerusalem on Friday, killing two people, including a 6-year-old, and injuring five others before being shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said, the latest escalation as violence grips the contested capital.

The car-ramming took place in Ramot, a Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. Tensions have soared in the IsA rescue and recovery team works at raeli-annexed eastern half of the city, the site of a car-ramming attack at a following a Palestinian shooting attack outside a synagogue on Jan.

27 that bus stop in Ramot, a Jewish killed seven people in the deadliest atsettlement in east Jerusalem, Friday. MAHMOUD ILLEAN/AP tack in Jerusalem in over a decade. The Israeli rescue service identified the two killed as a 6-year-old boy and a man in his 20s.

It said medics were rules the Gaza Strip, praised the ramtreating five injured, including an 8page but did not immediately claim responsibility. Footage from the scene year-old child in critical condition unshowed police and paramedics swarmdergoing CPR.

Others, ranging in age ing a mangled blue Mazda that had from 10 to 40, were in moderate to serislammed into the bus stop. ous condition. They had been waiting at the bus stop before the car came As an immediate measure, Israeli crashing to a stop, police said.

Defense Minister Yoav Galant imposed financial sanctions on 87 Palestinian "It was a shocking scene," said paramedic Lishai Shemesh who happened residents of east Jerusalem, including assailants and their family members. to be driving by at the time of the atGalant also ordered the seizures of tack.

"I was in the car with my wife and funds the Palestinian Authority uses to children and noticed a car driving fast pay families of Palestinian prisoners into the bus stop and crushing the people who were waiting there." held by Israel and suspected in deadly attacks against Israelis and those killed An off-duty detective shot and killed the suspected attacker at the scene, poin the conflict, including militants. lice added, describing him as a PalesThe PA payments to prisoners' famtinian in his 30s from east Jerusalem. ilies have been a central issue in Israel's Palestinian media identified him as 32punitive measures against the Palestinians in recent months.

The new Isyear-old Hussein Qaraga.

Speaking from the scene of the susraeli government decided recently to deduct the sums the PA had paid to pected attack, Israel's hard-line nationprisoners from tax revenue Israel al security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, transfers to the cash-strapped PA. ordered police to set up checkpoints around the driver's neighborhood of IsThe Palestinian Authority says these sawiya to "check every vehicle. payments are a necessary social welIsrael's largely ceremonial presifare, while Israel says the so-called dent, Isaac Herzog, expressed shock Martyrs' Fund incentivizes violence.

Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its and offered condolences to the families undivided capital, while the Palestinof the victims. "Our hearts are pained ians seek east Jerusalem, captured by by the terrible news," he said. Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as a capThe Islamic militant groups Palesital of their future state. tinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, which

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"Israel: Car rams bus stop in Jerusalem, killing two," The Oklahoman, 11 February 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-089. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-089