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Tom Gross and Sacha Dratwa contributed to this article.
Moshe Aharon, the driver of the bus, told Army Radio that
“a group of soldiers was standing with their bags near the bus. I had just let
them off. The truck drove into the group of soldiers, ran over them and kept
going. The soldiers shot at the driver. He reversed and ran over them again.”
Leah Schreiber, one of the guides for the group of
soldiers, told reporters that the driver had reversed and run over the bodies
again.
“I was explaining about the view of Jerusalem. I saw
soldiers shouting and screaming. Some of the soldiers started shooting. It took
some time to kill [the driver] so he was able to reverse. The whole thing took
maybe a minute and a half,” Schreiber said.
At first, it was not clear if this was an accident or a
deliberate attack, but Schreiber said she “understood it was a terror attack
when they started shooting at him.”
A number of victims were trapped under the truck after
the incident, according to a Magen David Adom paramedic on the scene.
According to the Ben Zvi Institute, which led the trip
for the army, the soldiers were cadets from the IDF’s officer’s training
course, but from non-combat units.
The driver of the truck was identified as Fadi al-Qanbar,
a resident of the capital’s Jabel Mukaber neighborhood, according to Arab media.
The truck, with Israeli license plates, came from the direction of that
neighborhood, which is adjacent to the promenade.
He was in his late 20s, married with four children, and
had served time in Israeli jail, Channel 2 said. He bought the truck last year.
One seriously injured soldier was sent to Shaare Zedek
hospital. She was unconscious and doctors were attempting to stabilize her
condition, a spokesperson for the hospital said.
The scene of a truck ramming
attack in Jerusalem in January 8, 2017
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility but the Hamas terror group praised the attack as “heroic.”
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem lauded the
attack on his Facebook page, saying, “These operations demonstrate that all
attempts to bypass the resistance or to thwart it will fail every time.”
Palestinian assailants have used vehicle
rammings as a method for terror attacks for years, and the method seemed to
have been adopted by European jihadists in recent months, including in an
attack in Berlin last month that left 12 dead, including an Israeli woman.
Hamas, a group previously praised by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, British Labour Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, British peer Baroness Jenny Tonge and others, hands out sweets to motorists in Gaza after
the attack yesterday in celebration of the murder of Israelis.
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