JERUSALEM: Ultra Orthodox Jews form a funeral procession for an Israeli man killed when a Palestinian driving a mechanical digger attacked a bus in Jerusalem

Record ID: 355011

  • Title: JERUSALEM: Ultra Orthodox Jews form a funeral procession for an Israeli man killed when a Palestinian driving a mechanical digger attacked a bus in Jerusalem
  • Date: 4th August 2014
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (AUGUST 4, 2014) (REUTERS) VARIOUS ULTRA ORTHODOX JEWS IN FUNERAL PROCESSION FOR ISRAELI KILLED DURING ATTACK MAN READING SCRIPTURE BOOK PEOPLE AT FUNERAL MAN WATCHING FROM VANTAGE POINT OVER CROWD VEHICLE CARRYING BODY OF VICTIM VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION PEOPLE WATCHING FROM BALCONY VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION CHILDREN WATCHING VARIOUS OF PROCESSION
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Jerusalem
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  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict,General,Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVAB23EFQ9XX70JX4O0RD7KHEX13
  • Story Text: A Jewish man killed by a mechanical digger driven by a Palestinian who overturned a bus in Jerusalem on Monday (August 4) has been buried.
    The incident appeared to be a backlash against Israel's Gaza war.
    There were no passengers on the bus, in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighbourhood of the city and the man was believed to be a pedestrian hit by the digger.
    Surveillance video broadcast on Israeli television showed the yellow excavator's mechanical arm tearing into the side of the bus as it lay on the sidewalk.
    Police identified the driver of the digger as a Palestinian from East Jerusalem and described the incident as a 'terrorist' attack. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the incident.
    Police officers shot him dead, and TV footage showed the man's body hanging out of the excavator's cabin.
    Tensions have been high in Jerusalem for the past month over the Gaza war and the killing of a Palestinian teen in the city by alleged Israeli assailants out to avenge the deaths of three abducted Israeli youngsters in the occupied West Bank.
    A spokesman for Hamas, the dominant group in the Gaza Strip, said: "We praise the heroic and brave operations in Jerusalem, which come as a natural reaction to the crimes and massacres by the Occupation against our people in Gaza."
    In two incidents in July 2008, construction vehicles driven by Palestinians hit Israeli buses and pedestrians, killing a total of three people. In both incidents, the attackers were shot dead.
    Three years later, an Arab truck driver drove into cars and pedestrians in Tel Aviv, killing one person, in what police said was a deliberate attack. The driver was apprehended and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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