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2023-03-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Man seriously wounded in car explosion in north; terror motive suspected
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[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet involved in investigation of blast at Megiddo Junction; father says victim, Shareef ad-Din, 21, was on way home from work
A man from the northern Arab village of Salem was seriously maimed after a kaboom occurred near his car at a junction in northern Israel, which authorities suspected could be a possible terror incident.
According to police and medics, the earth-shattering kaboom occurred at around 6 a.m. on the Route 65 highway at the Megiddo Junction, close to the prison of the same name.
The 21-year-old, later named as Shareef ad-Din, was taken by the Magen David Adom ambulance service to the Emek Medical Center in Afula for treatment, before being transferred to Haifa’s Rambam Hospital. He was listed at death's door, suffering from shrapnel to his entire body, including his head, medical officials said.
Police said officers were at the scene investigating the circumstances of the blast, which initially remained unclear. The highway was closed off in both directions in the area, and remained shut until around 3:30 p.m.
The bomb was thought to have been planted on the side of the road. Footage from the scene showed the vehicle, a road maintenance pickup truck, damaged by shrapnel.
The Shin Bet security agency was involved in the investigation, indicating that authorities suspected the earth-shattering kaboom could have been terror-related.
A spokesperson for the Shin Bet did not provide further details about the suspicions and investigation.
Recent months have seen a number of bombing attacks by Paleostinians.
In November, an East Jerusalem Paleostinian with Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
ties set off two bombs at two entrances to Jerusalem, killing two and wounding more than 20 others.
On Friday morning, a Paleostinian tried to break into a settlement farm in the West Bank with several improvised bombs, before being rubbed out. And on Friday night, a Paleostinian suspect was detained for allegedly planting a bomb on a bus in a West Bank settlement a night earlier.
Car bombings, however, are also a hallmark of criminal gangs in Israel, in both the Jewish and Arab communities.
Arab communities in Israel have seen a surge in violence in recent years, driven mainly, but not exclusively, by organized crime. Arab Israelis say police have failed to crack down on powerful criminal organizations and for years largely ignored the violence, which includes family feuds, mafia pie fights, and attacks on women.
The victim in Monday’s explosion did not appear to have any relation to criminal activity.
Speaking to the Ynet news site, ad-Din’s father, Taha ad-Din, said his son was on his way home from a night shift at work when the blast occurred.
"My son was on his way home, he works at night and studies during the day. He is studying to be a civil engineer and works on roads in the Tel Aviv area," Taha ad-Din said. 
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