two dead including a child in a “ram car attack”

A man driving a car ran over bystanders at a bus stop in East Jerusalem, killing an 8-year-old child and a 20-year-old man on Friday, February 10, according to Israeli police, who say he is is a “terrorist car bombing”. She announces that she has “neutralized” the driver, who is dead. Five other people are injured, two of them in critical condition, medical officials said.

According to a police spokesperson, “the driver of a vehicle drove at high speed” towards a crossroads in Ramot, a settlement district in this part of Jerusalem annexed by Israel, before hitting these passers-by. “Jerusalem District Police, including an off-duty inspector, quickly arrived on the scene and fired at the terrorist who was neutralized”he added, without giving details on the identity of the driver.

Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed the lives of at least 43 Palestinians (including combatants and civilians, including minors), eight Israeli civilians (including two minors), and one Ukrainian woman, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli and Palestinian sources.

On Thursday, a Palestinian, accused by the Israeli army of having tried to stab one of its soldiers, was shot dead by soldiers in the occupied West Bank. On Friday, the Palestinian Authority accused Israel of “medical negligence” after the death of a Palestinian detainee in prison, an allegation that Israeli diplomacy described as “unfounded”.