JERUSALEM (AP) — Safety personnel sealed up the household residence of a Palestinian man who careened his automobile right into a Jerusalem bus cease, killing three Israelis and injuring a number of others, Israeli police stated Sunday.
Police launched a video exhibiting police and troopers welding the doorways and home windows of the condominium in east Jerusalem shut. The motion got here after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the dwelling sealed instantly after the Friday assault. It was step one forward of the doable demolition of the condominium.
Three Israelis, including brothers aged 8 and 6, were killed Friday when Palestinian driver Hussein Qaraqa careened right into a bus cease within the east Jerusalem settlement of Ramot. Asher and Yaakov Paley’s father was one in every of 5 individuals injured within the incident. Qaraqa, 32, was killed by police on the scene.
Police had arrested and interrogated Qaraqa’s household nearly instantly after he carried out Friday’s lethal assault. It stated {that a} courtroom had prolonged the detention of his two brothers and that the investigation was ongoing.
Qaraqa’s household stated he had been recognized with a psychiatric dysfunction and had been launched from a hospital simply two days earlier than the incident.
Israel says demolishing Palestinian attackers’ houses serves as a deterrent meant to stop future assaults. However human rights teams say the follow quantities to collective punishment and leaves kinfolk who had nothing to do with the assault homeless.
Israel claims all of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, whereas the Palestinians search east Jerusalem, captured by Israel within the 1967 Mideast battle, as capital of a future state.