A previously unknown group calling itself “the martyr of Baha Alyan collective” has claimed the deadly ramming attack in Jerusalem yesterday.
In a press statement circulating online, the group says Fadi al-Qunbar, the 28-year-old East Jerusalemite truck driver who plowed his vehicle into a group of soldiers, killing four and wounding many others, was part of their group.
The group’s statement says this attack was not the first carried out by a member, and will be followed by “a torrent of unyielding quality attacks.”
It is impossible to immediately confirm the reliability of the claim.
Police and emergency medical services treat the victims of a terror attack in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem on Oct. 13, 2015. (Israel Police)
Baha Alyan was one of two men that attacked a bus in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on October 13, 2015, shooting and stabbing passengers.
The attackers killed three people. Police who arrived at the scene shot and killed Alyan. The other attacker, Bilal Abu Ghanem, was shot and taken into police custody. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to three life terms plus 60 years.
— Dov Lieber
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