Tagged car-ramming attacks

Israeli soldier seriously injured in West Bank car-ramming attack
May 14, 2020 / Marcy Oster, JTA

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was seriously injured in a car-ramming attack Thursday in the West Bank as violence there escalates. Israeli troops shot the Palestinian driver as he “drove quickly toward IDF soldiers next to a military post” in an apparent deliberate attack, the Israel Defense Forces… Read more »

Israeli soldiers injured in 3 attacks in 12 hours
February 6, 2020 / Marcy Oster, JTA

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli Border Police officer was shot and wounded in an attack Thursday morning on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem hours after 12 Israeli soldiers were injured in an early morning car-ramming attack in the center of the city. Also Thursday, an Israeli soldier was injured… Read more »

Is Europe’s jihadist problem generating empathy toward Israel?

A view of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with the image of an Israeli flag, Jan. 9, 2017. (Odd Anderson/AFP/Getty Images)
January 13, 2017 / Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

(JTA) — Is terrorism softening European attitudes toward Israel? When a Palestinian terrorist used a car to ram and kill an Israeli soldier in eastern Jerusalem in 2014, the European Union urged “restraint” and, without condemning the attack, called it merely “further painful evidence of the need to undertake… Read more »