An 8-year-old boy, seriously injured on Friday in a attack to the car-ram against a bus stop at Jerusalem-Est, succumbed to his injuries, said this Saturday thehospital where he had been transferred.
His death brings the death toll to three. israeli in the attack which occurred on Friday afternoon, in Ramot, a Jewish settlement district in the eastern part – annexed by Israel – of the Holy City.
His brother, Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 6, was killed instantly, and Alter Shlomo Lederman, a 20-year-old yeshiva (Talmudic school) student, also died on Friday shortly after being taken to hospital .
Worrying state of the injured
“During Shabat (the Jewish weekly rest), 8-year-old Asher Menahem Paley, who was seriously injured in the Ramot attack, died,” Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem said in a statement.
“He arrived in critical condition (…) Many teams from the trauma unit, emergency, pediatric intensive care, pediatric surgery and neurosurgery fought for many hours to save his life but they unfortunately had to declare his death, ”said the press release.
Among the four injured in the attack are the father of the two slain boys, who is still hospitalized, and their 10-year-old older brother, according to hospital sources and Israeli media.
Attacker shot dead
According to the police, the driver of a ram car, a 31-year-old resident of Issawiye, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, aged 31, hit “at high speed (…) innocent people who were waiting at the bus stop” . He was shot dead by police who arrived quickly on the scene, according to the same source.
Since the beginning of the year, the israelo-Palestinian conflict claimed the lives of at least 43 Palestinians (including fighters and civilians, including minors), nine Israeli civilians (including three minors), and a Ukrainian woman, according to an AFP tally compiled from official Israeli sources and Palestinians.