October 14, 2015 Murder and Terror Attacks in Jerusalem

October 14, 2015 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation

Murder

JERUSALEM — The bus was just rounding a corner in East Jerusalem when two Palestinians armed with a gun and a knife tried to commandeer it and shot and stabbed its passengers, witnesses said.

It was one of four attacks Tuesday by Palestinians in Jerusalem and another city 40 miles away that killed three Israelis and wounded more than 20. The most intense eruption so far in two weeks of escalating violence alarmed an already tense Israel.

Minutes after the bus attack, in what may have been a coordinated assault, a Palestinian worker for the Israeli telephone company rammed his company vehicle into pedestrians at a bus stop in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of West Jerusalem, then got out and hacked them with a meat cleaver. Police officers killed one of the bus attackers and wounded the other, while a security guard fatally shot the phone company worker.

One of the two Israelis killed on the bus was identified as Haviv Haim, 78. The Israeli killed by the phone company worker was identified as Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevski, 60.

Palestinians also carried out two stabbings in Ra’anana, a normally tranquil, suburban city of 80,000 northeast of Tel Aviv that is home to many American immigrant families. The perpetrators in both attacks were captured, the police said.

The outbreak of violence on Tuesday came after four stabbing attacks on Monday in Jerusalem, including one in which a 13-year-old Israeli Jew riding his bicycle was critically wounded by two Palestinian cousins, 13 and 15. The younger assailant was hit by a car and severely hurt as he tried to flee, the police said, while the older one was fatally shot by officers, prompting outrage.

Israeli emergency responders removing the body of a Palestinian from a bus where an attack took place in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Source: The New York Times. October 15, 2015