Wand, 9 января 2017 г., 5:15
(Photo not found) Four people have been killed in Jerusalem by a Palestinian man who drove a lorry into a group of soldiers, in what police called a terror attack. Three women and one man, all in their twenties, were killed and 17 others were wounded, police said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker, who was shot dead by soldiers, was a suspected supporter of so-called Islamic State. But the prime minister gave no evidence to support the claim. The victims were taking part in an educational trip, the Israeli military said. The attacker, identified as 28-year-old Fadi Qunbar, came from the Palestinian district of Jabel Mukaber in east Jerusalem, near to the attack site. The attack took place on the popular Armon Hanatziv promenade overlooking the walled Old City of Jerusalem. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said security had been heightened throughout the city in response. The Palestinian militant group Hamas praised the attacker. Hamas spokesman Abdul-Latif Qanou called it a "heroic" act and encouraged other Palestinians to "escalate the resistance". Before this latest incident, 35 Israelis had been killed in a wave of knife, gun and car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs since October 2015. An emergency meeting of the Israeli security cabinet approved administrative detention for IS sympathizers and authorized the destruction of the driver's home. Mr Netanyahu visited the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon and said: "We know that there has been a series of terror attacks.”There definitely could be a connection between them - from France to Berlin, and now Jerusalem." Attackers in Nice and Berlin last year used the same method of driving a lorry through a crowd. More than 200 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have also been killed in that period. Israel says Palestinian incitement has fuelled the attacks. The Palestinian leadership has blamed frustration rooted in decades of Israeli occupation. The BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem says the number of attacks had begun to subside in recent months, but Sunday's incident is one of the most serious there has been. Source: www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38546740
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