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Violence again in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM — An eight-year-old boy injured in a car ramming attack on Feb. 10 in Jerusalem died of his wounds the following day.

Rescue and Police at the scene of a terror attack at the Ramot junction, in Jerusalem, Feb. 10, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The boy’s six-year-old brother was also killed in the terror attack at a bus stop outside Ramot, a neighborhood in Jerusalem, along with a 20-year-old man.

The eight-year-old boy was as Asher Menachem Paley, his six-year-old brother as Yaakov Yisrael Paley. The 20-year-old was identified as Asher Shlomo Lederman, who was newly wed.

At least four others, including the boys’ father and another sibling, were injured in the attack, which was committed by a Palestinian from the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Isawiya.

The six-year-old victim was buried on Feb. 10, and the remaining two victims were buried the following night.

The attack came two weeks after the shooting attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov that killed seven people on a Friday night as they were coming home from the synagogues.

That attack came one day after an Israel Defense Forces search raid in the West Bank city of Jenin for plotters of a “ticking bomb” terror attack killed 10 people, including two civilians.

An Israeli border police officer, identified as Staff Sgt. Asil Sawaed, has died after a Palestinian teen stabbed him on a bus outside the Shuafat refugee camp in eastern Jerusalem on Feb. 13.

The 13-year-old was shot and arrested following the attack, which took place at a checkpoint outside Shuafat.

Earlier, police arrested a 14-year-old Palestinian after he allegedly stabbed a 17-year-old boy in Jerusalem’s Old City, Haaretz reported.

Another non-fatal shooting attack near the Old City of Jerusalem was carried out by a 13-year old, who was shot when one of the two people he wounded, an off-duty soldier, returned fire.

Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster, quoted police as saying that Palestinian terror groups are using TikTok videos and other social media to encourage young teens in the Jerusalem area to carry out attacks.

On Feb. 12, Israel’s government gave recognition to nine previously unrecognized settlements in the West Bank in retaliation for the attacks.

TPS contributed to this report.



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