October 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack | |
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Location | East Jerusalem |
Date | 22 October 2014 |
Attack type | Vehicle attack |
Deaths | 3 (2 civilians and 1 attacker) |
Injured | 7 civilians |
Perpetrators | Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, from Silwan |
On 22 October 2014, a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd of people waiting at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. [1] [2] The attack killed a three-month-old girl and a 22-year-old Ecuadorian potential convert to Judaism, and injured seven others. [3] [4] [5] Police shot the driver of the vehicle as he fled the scene and he later died of his wounds. [6]
A 21-year-old, Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, from Silwan, is believed to have deliberately driven his father's car at high speed into the crowd waiting at a Jerusalem light rail station. Israel identified him as a Hamas member, [7] and police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld stated that, "this was a terrorist attack. The driver ... is a resident of Silwan and has a terrorist background. He has served time in jail for terror activity." [8] The driver was shot dead as he attempted to flee the scene. [9] [10]
The attack is one in a series of violent Palestinian attacks on civilians in the summer and fall of 2014 being described by some as a new intifada. [11] [12]
Family members of Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi believe that he had lost control of the car and the killing was not intentional. [13] [14] Ynet speculates, after conversations with his family, that his act was precipitated after hearing a false rumour on an Arabic-language radio station that Israeli police had entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque with their shoes not to arrest stone-throwers but in order to desecrate the shrine. [15] On 14 November the order was given to demolish Shaloudi's home, [16] and it was destroyed on 19 November, [17] although pictures show that only his room, and not the whole house, was destroyed. [18]
Chaya Zissel Braun was a 3-month-old, who held both American and Israeli citizenship. [19] As her mother was exiting the train, the stroller was hit directly by the car, killing her instantly. [20] [21]
Karen Yemima Mosquera was a 22-year-old, a recent immigrant from Ecuador, who had come to Israel to explore Judaism, for a future conversion. [22] She was critically injured during the attack and later died on 26 October. [23] [24] [25] [26] Her mother and sister traveled to Jerusalem to be with her in the hospital, her father joined them for the funeral. [27] [28]
October 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack | |
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Location | East Jerusalem |
Date | 22 October 2014 |
Attack type | Vehicle attack |
Deaths | 3 (2 civilians and 1 attacker) |
Injured | 7 civilians |
Perpetrators | Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, from Silwan |
On 22 October 2014, a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd of people waiting at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. [1] [2] The attack killed a three-month-old girl and a 22-year-old Ecuadorian potential convert to Judaism, and injured seven others. [3] [4] [5] Police shot the driver of the vehicle as he fled the scene and he later died of his wounds. [6]
A 21-year-old, Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, from Silwan, is believed to have deliberately driven his father's car at high speed into the crowd waiting at a Jerusalem light rail station. Israel identified him as a Hamas member, [7] and police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld stated that, "this was a terrorist attack. The driver ... is a resident of Silwan and has a terrorist background. He has served time in jail for terror activity." [8] The driver was shot dead as he attempted to flee the scene. [9] [10]
The attack is one in a series of violent Palestinian attacks on civilians in the summer and fall of 2014 being described by some as a new intifada. [11] [12]
Family members of Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi believe that he had lost control of the car and the killing was not intentional. [13] [14] Ynet speculates, after conversations with his family, that his act was precipitated after hearing a false rumour on an Arabic-language radio station that Israeli police had entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque with their shoes not to arrest stone-throwers but in order to desecrate the shrine. [15] On 14 November the order was given to demolish Shaloudi's home, [16] and it was destroyed on 19 November, [17] although pictures show that only his room, and not the whole house, was destroyed. [18]
Chaya Zissel Braun was a 3-month-old, who held both American and Israeli citizenship. [19] As her mother was exiting the train, the stroller was hit directly by the car, killing her instantly. [20] [21]
Karen Yemima Mosquera was a 22-year-old, a recent immigrant from Ecuador, who had come to Israel to explore Judaism, for a future conversion. [22] She was critically injured during the attack and later died on 26 October. [23] [24] [25] [26] Her mother and sister traveled to Jerusalem to be with her in the hospital, her father joined them for the funeral. [27] [28]