Jerusalem hospitals treating 8 injured in attacks

Three terror victims remain in serious condition; the rest have light to moderate injuries from car rammings

By Stuart Winer

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6 November 2014, 11:00 am

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Stuart Winer is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.

Eight people injured in two car ramming attacks on Wednesday remain in hospital Thursday, with three of the victims in serious condition.

Of those hurt in the attacks, five are being treated at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, one of them in critical condition. The other four have moderate to light injuries.

Doctors at Shaare Zedek Medical Center are treating another three of the wounded, two in serious condition and the third with moderate injuries.

The victims were injured in two incidents on Wednesday, when Palestinians drove vehicles into Israeli pedestrians in Jerusalem and in the West Bank.

On Wednesday morning, an East Jerusalem man drove his van into a group of pedestrians in the capital, in a terror attack that killed a Border Police officer and injured 11 others, one of them critically.

The fatality, Jedan Assad, 38, from the Druze village of Beit Jann, will be laid to rest Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. local time in his village.

Assad was a father to a three-year-old boy; his wife is five months pregnant.

Hours later, a Palestinian vehicle hit three soldiers who were standing by the side of Route 60 near the Palestinian refugee camp of al-Aroub, south of Jerusalem.

The vehicle was identified as a large white commercial truck, and a van matching the description was later found by IDF troops. Security forces launched a wide-scale manhunt to try and find the driver.

The perpetrator of the Jerusalem attack, 48-year-old Ibrahim al-Akary from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, a father of five, was buried late Wednesday night in the Old City after being shot to death by security forces during the course of the attack.

Israel Radio reported that a new social media campaign making its way online calls for more terror attacks using vehicles as weapons. The campaign is reportedly called “Daas,” the Arabic word for “run over,” which is also a play on words for the Arabic acronym “Daesh” for the terror group the Islamic State.

Ilan Ben Zion contributed to this report.