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2023-04-25 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Five wounded in car-ramming attack near busy Jerusalem market
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[IsraelTimes] One victim in 60s fighting for his life; Paleostinian man who plowed car into pedestrians at corner of Agrippas and Ki’ach streets rubbed out
Five people were maimed in a car-ramming near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market on Monday afternoon, police and medics said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said its medics treated five people at the scene on the corner of Agrippas and Ki’ach streets, including an elderly man at death's door.
The man later underwent surgery for multisystemic injuries and doctors were continuing to fight to save his life, said Dr. Alon Schwartz, head of trauma at Shaare Zedek hospital.
A woman in her 30s was listed in moderate condition with injuries to her limbs and will likely also require surgery, Schwartz said.
Three others were listed in good condition, including a 50-year-old man and two men aged 25. The five were taken to Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Ein Kerem hospitals in Jerusalem.
Graphic amateur video footage showed an armed civilian shooting into the car’s window as a maimed man lay on the hood of the vehicle. Several other victims were seen strewn across the street.
"A citizen who witnessed the incident and was near the scene shot and neutralized the terrorist, and later he was declared dead at the scene," police said in a statement, calling the ramming a terror attack.
The Paleostinian driver was identified as 39-year-old Khatem Najma, a father of five from East Jerusalem’s Beit Safafa neighborhood. He had no known prior security offenses, but was known to have mental heath issues.
The attack occurred outside the Mahane Yehuda outdoor market, or shuk, a popular area normally crowded with shoppers.
On Monday afternoon, the area would have been filled with people ahead of the start of Memorial Day, when most stores close.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also called the incident a terror attack.
"Minutes ago, not far from here, there was another attempt to murder Israeli citizens. This terror attack reminds us that the Land of Israel and the State of Israel were acquired through many tribulations," Netanyahu said during a ceremony ahead of Memorial Day at the nearby Yad Lebanim Memorial center.
Israel will mark Memorial Day for soldiers, terror victims and others starting Monday night ahead of Independence Day Tuesday night, a period when emotions and tensions often run high. A Paleostinian stabbing attack on Independence Day in the central city of Elad last year left four dead and several more injured.
Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been high for over a year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank amid a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks.
Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have left 19 people dead since the beginning of the year and several more seriously hurt.
At least 92 Paleostinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, most of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.
Last week, two Israeli men were shot and maimed in a terror attack in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The alleged Paleostinian assailant was arrested less than a day later in Nablus. 
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