Visiting the scene of the terror attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says “all signs point to the attacker being an Islamic State supporter,” linking the ramming to similar attacks in Europe.
“We know that we have here a series of attacks, and there could be a link between them, from France to Berlin, and now Jerusalem,” he says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, to his left, visit the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)
The attacker has been identified in media as Fadi al-Qanbar, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, near the attack site.
“We’ve placed a closure on Jabel Mukaber, the neighborhood he came from, and we are carrying out other actions that I won’t detail here,” Netanyahu says, adding that he had come from a meeting with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot and other top security officials.
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