Twice on Monday, terror struck in Jerusalem. A Jerusalemite was killed when a Palestinian excavator driver run him over en route to smashing into a bus in the city center, flipping it over. Mercifully, the bus was almost empty. Soon after, a gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on a soldier on Mount Scopus, seriously injuring him.
The tractor that a terrorist from Jabel Mukaber used to flip over a bus on Shmuel HaNavi street in Jerusalem on Monday, August 4, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The excavator attack brought back dark memories, as ToI’s Melanie Lidman reports:
For Jerusalem residents, the attack marked the return of an all-too-familiar terror method.
Monday’s incident, caught on a series of mobile-phone videos, was reminiscent of a similar attack in downtown Jerusalem six years earlier, when a bulldozer driver rampaged down Jaffa Road before being shot by a bystander with a gun who hopped onto the cab.
The phenomenon of using bulldozers to carry out terror attacks started with a July 2008 incident, the deadliest of the bunch.
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