Daily Terror Attacks Taking a Toll on Israelis
JERUSALEM, Israel -- It seems hardly a day goes by recently without a spate of terror attacks. Tuesday began with a car ramming at Tapuach Junction in Samaria.
A Palestinian rammed his vehicle into Israeli passengers waiting for a bus at the junction, injuring two IDF officers, one a lieutenant colonel, a Border Policeman and a civilian. All four were evacuated to Rabin Medical Center's Bellinson Hospital in Petah Tikvah for further treatment.
Israeli security forces shot and injured the attacker, who was transported by ambulance for additional treatment.
A short time later, security forces arrested a Palestinian armed with a concealed knife at Jerusalem's Central Bus Station. He was taken in for questioning.
Today's attack comes in the wake of Monday afternoon's fatal stabbing attack at a gas station along Route 443. A 16-year-old Palestinian murdered IDF Pvt. Ziv Mizrachi, 18, who was being laid to rest Tuesday at Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.
A female IDF officer moderately injured in that attack was released Tuesday morning after an overnight in a Jerusalem hospital.
Mizrachi is the 23rd Israeli fatality in the latest wave of Palestinian terror attacks, which began about two months ago.
On Sunday, Hadar Buchris, 21, was stabbed to death awaiting a bus at the Gush Etzion Junction. She was buried on Monday.
Last Thursday, American student Ezra Schwartz, 18, was one of three victims gunned down by a Palestinian terrorist in a drive-by shooting in the Gush Etzion region, just south of Jerusalem.
Earlier Monday, two Muslim cousins from Kalandiya, aged 16 and 14, attacked an elderly Palestinian man at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda outdoor market, stabbing him in the face with scissors. Security forces on site shot both attackers, killing one and wounding the other.
