Four Israelis injured in ramming attack on Route 443 near Maccabim crossing outside Modi’in.
By David Rosenberg, World Israel News
Four Israelis were injured in a terrorist car ramming attack outside the central Israeli city of Modi’in Thursday morning.
The attack occurred at approximately 9:00 a.m. Thursday on Route 443, one of the two major highways linking Jerusalem and the coastal plain.
During the attack the terrorist drove his truck into a group of young Israelis adjacent to the Maccabim checkpoint on Route 443, near the entrance to Modi’in.
Emergency first responders from Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah were dispatched to the scene to treat the injured, one of whom is listed in critical condition, with a second in moderate-to-serious condition. The two other victims were lightly injured.
All four victims were evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for treatment.
The terrorist fled the scene, but was located and shot dead by security forces at the Hashmonaim checkpoint near Modi’in Illit, just north of the scene of Thursday’s attack.
The ramming attack comes on the heels of a string of terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria during the preceding 24 hours.
Just hours prior to Thursday morning’s ramming attack, four IDF soldiers were injured in a bombing attack during an operation to secure entry for civilians to Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem (Nablus).
On Wednesday, a teenage terrorist from eastern Jerusalem stabbed an Israeli man in the back near the Shivtei Yisrael light rail station in the capital.
Earlier on Wednesday, an IDF soldier was injured in a ramming attack outside of a military post next to Beit Hagai, in the Hebron district.
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