Twelve Israeli soldiers were wounded in what Israeli security forces have described as a suspected vehicular ramming attack in central Jerusalem just before 2 a.m. The Golani soldiers were at the First Station, a popular entertainment spot on the city’s David Remez Street, during a heritage tour ahead of their swearing in ceremony at the Western Wall. Zilberman said that they had been walking on the sidewalk when the vehicle came from behind and struck them at high speed. The soldiers were not able to shoot at the driver before he fled the scene of the attack. “This happened in seconds,” Zilberman said. One of the soldiers, aged 20, was evacuated in critical condition to Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The others were lightly injured and evacuated to hospital. Police said a large force of officers are carrying out a manhunt near Beit Jala where the car was found.
Shaare Tzedek Medical Center said in a statement that the critically wounded individual suffered from multisystem trauma and was sent to the operating room after undergoing diagnostic procedures. “One of the injured was in a critical condition, and after having surgery, he is in a stable condition but you cannot say that his life is not in danger anymore. The other four are expected to be released later today,” Dr. Alon Schwartz, head of the trauma department at the hospital told KAN.
In response to the attack, Blue and White head Benny Gantz tweeted that he “prays for the healing of the Golani soldiers” and “trusts the security forces to capture the lowly terrorist and hold him accountable for his actions. “Terror should not be allowed to raise its head, neither in Gaza nor in Judea and Samaria,” Gantz concluded. President Reuven Rivlin expressed similar sentiments, adding that, “we will fight [terrorism] without compromise.”
Overnight, IDF forces in conjunction with Border Police destroyed the home of terrorist Ahmed Kunbe in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin overnight.
Kunbe was a member of a cell that was involved in a shooting attack that killed Rabbi Raziel Shabach in January 2018. Despite his family submitting a petition to place a stay on the demolition, a military court ruled that the IDF may proceed with the demolition. A Palestinian protesting the demolition was killed during the event while confronting IDF soldiers.
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