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4 I July 10,2008
TEXAS JEWISH POST & SINCE 1947
Arab attack in Jerusalem leaves 3 dead, dozens injured
By Roy Eitan
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The deadly
July 2 terrorist attack by an Arab
bulldozer driver on a crowded
street here raised questions anew
about how Israeli authorities can
protect against attacks by lone as-
sailants from eastern Jerusalem.
At least three people were killed
and dozens injured in the noontime
attack on Jaffa Road.
Husam Duwayat, a 30-year-old
father of two from eastern Jerusa-
lem, plowed through traffic on one
of the busiest streets in the Israeli
capital, overturning a commuter
bus, crushing cars and sending pe-
destrians in a mad rush for safety.
"It was terrible, like nothing you
could imagine," a bus passenger
who gave her name as Bat-El told
Israel Radio.
Policemen and an armed civilian
ended the rampage by scrambling
aboard the 20-ton bulldozer and
shooting Duwayat at point-blank
range. The brutal scene was cap-
tured on film and broadcast around
the world.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility for the rampage,
prompting speculation that Du-
wayat, who had been working at a
construction site nearby, turned vi-
olent spontaneously. Police said he
had a criminal record but no known
terrorist ties.
It was the second attack in Jeru-
salem by a lone Arab assailant from
eastern Jerusalem in five months.
The previous attack was a shoot-
ing spree at a Jerusalem yeshiva in
March, which left eight students
dead.
Last week's attack renewed de-
bate in Israel over how to handle
Palestinians from eastern Jerusa-
lem, who carry Israeli identity cards
and may travel freely around the
Jewish state.
Israel's West Bank security fence
and regular IDF counterterrorist
operations and intelligence gather-
ing in Palestinian-populated ter-
ritories have dramatically reduced
terrorist attacks against Israelis
from their highs earlier this decade,
during the second intifada.
Such security measures, however,
provide little defense against attacks
like last week's, in which an Arab
from an area west of the security
fence apparently acting alone per-
petrated a deadly attack using rela-
tively unsophisticated weaponry.
The March attack at the Mercaz
HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem bore
the same hallmarks.
"The terrorists never tire of
thinking up original ways to strike,"
said Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupo-
lianski. "It's no accident they choose
Jerusalem. This is the heart of the
state of Israel, of the Jewish people."
After the July 2 attack, Israeli In-
dustry and Trade Minister Eli Yishai
called for the terrorist's house in the
Sur Bacher neighborhood of Jeru-
salem to be demolished — a puni-
tive measure commonly used in the
West Bank and Gaza until recently,
when it was discontinued amid crit-
icism by civil liberties groups.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert or-
dered his ministers and legal advis-
ers to assess the legal implications
of taking such action, promising an
answer by day's end.
Pending a decision, police raided
the house in search of clues as to
Duwayat's motives.
As they left, a female relative
ululated from a balcony to watching
journalists.
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Israeli police and rescue workers inspect a car crushed by the bulldozer used in an
Arab attack on July 2 in downtown Jerusalem.
"Husam's a martyr!" she shout-
ed. "May God have mercy on his
soul."
The attack came as Olmert
struggled to preserve a two-week-
old cease-fire with Hamas in the
Gaza Strip. The cease-fire has been
interrupted multiple times by rock-
ets and shelling from Gaza.
Islamic Jihad, which has claimed
responsibility for some of that rock-
et fire from Gaza, praised Duwayat's
attack.
"The Jerusalem Brigades bless
the heroic operation in Jerusalem as
the natural reaction to the crimes of
the occupation," the group said, ac-
cording to reports.
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman
Sami Abu Zuhri said he did not ex-
pect the Jerusalem attack to "influ-
ence the Gaza calm."
"There is a continued aggression
against our people in the West Bank
and Jerusalem, and so it is natural
that our people there will respond
to such aggression," he said.
From Washington, President
Bush telephoned Olmert "and ex-
pressed his condolences to the Is-
raeli people over today's murderous
terrorist attack," the Prime Minis-
ter's Office said.
The Fatah-led Palestinian Au-
thority also issued a condemnation
of the attack.
"Whoever carried this out wants
to hurt the peace process, and
we urge the Israeli side not to be
dragged down by those who want
this to happen," said Tayeb Andel
Rahim, an aide to P.A. President
Mahmoud Abbas.
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