Bulldozer attack in Jerusalem - 5.3.2009. - raw video footage of the rampage and police intervention
Title: Bulldozer attack in Jerusalem - 5.3.2009. - raw video footage of the rampage and police intervention
Author: miolesou
Tags: bulldozer, attack, rampage, jerusalem, israel, hamas, palestine, horror, פיגוע, טרקטור, terror, terrorist, terrorism
Duration: 01:08 seconds
View count: 10141
Rating: 4.75 (8 ratings)
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Description: Thursday, 5 March 2009 - A Palestinian construction worker crashed his bulldozer into a bus and sent a police car flying in the air in Jerusalem as tensions escalated following fresh Israeli air strikes on Palestinian militants. The driver of a digger crushed a police car and crashed into other vehicles on a busy Jerusalem road before being shot dead by police and a taxi driver. The open Koran in the driver's cabin but the man was not carrying any identification, police said. Israel's Army Radio identified the driver as a Palestinian. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "It seems to be a terrorist attack from the evidence we have at the moment." The incident came one day after a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Police compared the attack to three similar incidents last year, two with bulldozers and one with a BMW car. In the 2008 incidents, which police also called terrorist attacks, the drivers were identified as Palestinians from Arab East Jerusalem. Mr Rosenfeld said police have stepped up security across Jerusalem. The incident took place on a major road that cuts across Jerusalem. Police and witnesses at the scene said the driver of the digger first turned over a police car and then tried to hit a passing bus. Panicking passengers asked the bus driver to stop the vehicle to let them out, a witness said. One of the bystanders said: "At that point, two people - a policeman and a civilian - approached the tractor and, from the ground, shot the driver." The civilian who shot at the driver was identified by witnesses as a taxi driver. Israeli health officials said the digger driver died at hospital. Overnight the Israeli air force struck a group of Palestinian militants, killing two. They were attacked after they fired an anti-tank missile towards an army patrol along Israel's border with Gaza, the army spokesman's office said in a statement. On Wednesday night two other militants, also from Islamic Jihad, were targeted for assassination in an Israeli air strike that killed one and seriously injured the other. The two Israeli targeted killings were the first since a massive operation into Gaza by Israel to halt rocket-fire into the country ended in mid January. Abu Ahmed, an Islamic Jihad spokesman in Gaza vowed revenge. "Our rockets and our resistance will not stop," he said. "We know where and when we will take revenge for these crimes."
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Title: Bulldozer attack in Jerusalem - 5.3.2009. - raw video footage of the rampage and police intervention
Author: miolesou
Tags: bulldozer, attack, rampage, jerusalem, israel, hamas, palestine, horror, פיגוע, טרקטור, terror, terrorist, terrorism
Duration: 01:08 seconds
View count: 10141
Rating: 4.75 (8 ratings)
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Description: Thursday, 5 March 2009 - A Palestinian construction worker crashed his bulldozer into a bus and sent a police car flying in the air in Jerusalem as tensions escalated following fresh Israeli air strikes on Palestinian militants. The driver of a digger crushed a police car and crashed into other vehicles on a busy Jerusalem road before being shot dead by police and a taxi driver. The open Koran in the driver's cabin but the man was not carrying any identification, police said. Israel's Army Radio identified the driver as a Palestinian. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said: "It seems to be a terrorist attack from the evidence we have at the moment." The incident came one day after a visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Police compared the attack to three similar incidents last year, two with bulldozers and one with a BMW car. In the 2008 incidents, which police also called terrorist attacks, the drivers were identified as Palestinians from Arab East Jerusalem. Mr Rosenfeld said police have stepped up security across Jerusalem. The incident took place on a major road that cuts across Jerusalem. Police and witnesses at the scene said the driver of the digger first turned over a police car and then tried to hit a passing bus. Panicking passengers asked the bus driver to stop the vehicle to let them out, a witness said. One of the bystanders said: "At that point, two people - a policeman and a civilian - approached the tractor and, from the ground, shot the driver." The civilian who shot at the driver was identified by witnesses as a taxi driver. Israeli health officials said the digger driver died at hospital. Overnight the Israeli air force struck a group of Palestinian militants, killing two. They were attacked after they fired an anti-tank missile towards an army patrol along Israel's border with Gaza, the army spokesman's office said in a statement. On Wednesday night two other militants, also from Islamic Jihad, were targeted for assassination in an Israeli air strike that killed one and seriously injured the other. The two Israeli targeted killings were the first since a massive operation into Gaza by Israel to halt rocket-fire into the country ended in mid January. Abu Ahmed, an Islamic Jihad spokesman in Gaza vowed revenge. "Our rockets and our resistance will not stop," he said. "We know where and when we will take revenge for these crimes."
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