Al-Quds: 17 "Israelis", Mostly Soldiers, Hurt in Car Attack

Source: Al-Manar TV, 23-9-2008
Seventeen "Israelis", most of them soldiers, were in hospital on Tuesday after a Palestinian rammed a car into a group of pedestrians near Jerusalem's Old City, medics said.
The Palestinian who carried out the new operation late on Monday was shot dead by police shortly after his car slammed into a wall. He was identified as 19-year-old Qassem al-Mughrabi, a resident of East Jerusalem's Al Farouk neighborhood.
The incident took place near Tzahal Square, just outside the 400-year-old walls of Jerusalem's Old City and a few hundred meters (yards) from Jaffa Gate, a major tourist thoroughfare.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility from any resistance group.
"Israeli" occupation Police has meanwhile stepped up security across the city ahead of the Jewish high holidays in October, when large numbers of people are expected to visit occupied Jerusalem and its holy sites.
Monday's incident came just hours after "Israeli" President Shimon Peres asked Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to form a new government after the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has been dogged by corruption allegations.
"Israeli" War Minister Ehud Barak, the head of the Labor Party and a crucial coalition ally, said the home of the Palestinian had to be "destroyed as soon as possible" to dissuade others from carrying out similar acts.
Exactly two months earlier, on July 22, a Palestinian wounded 16 "Israeli" settlers when he turned an earth mover on passers-by and vehicles in occupied Jerusalem.
That incident mimicked one 10 days earlier in which another Palestinian, also in an earth mover, killed three "Israelis" and injured more than 45. Both men were shot dead immediately after the attacks.
On March 6, a Palestinian opened fire at an extremist "Israeli" school, killing eight "Israeli" students in the worst attack the occupied city had seen in years.
In each instance, the attackers hailed from east Jerusalem, prompting calls from across the political spectrum for their homes to be destroyed.
More than 250,000 Palestinians live in east Jerusalem. They hold special ID cards that allow them to travel and work in occupied territories, but are not citizens.
"Israel" occupied and annexed east Jerusalem, including the Old City, in the 1967 Six Day War and considers the entire city to be its "eternal, undivided" capital, a claim not recognized by the international community. The Palestinians have demanded east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.