Israel Police have concluded that a Palestinian construction worker who killed three Israelis with a bulldozer in Jerusalemlast week acted alone and not as part of a militant organisation, a spokesman said on Sunday. '(He) improvised the attack on his own,' police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on a day when hundreds of officers were on hand to protect some 30 Israelis who demonstrated near the dead attacker's house to demand his family home be demolished, or in case the protest turned violent. Husam Duwayit crushed cars and overturned a bus on Wednesday on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets. No major militant group claimed responsibility and relatives and neighbours described Duwayit, 30, as a troubled man with a record of drug offenses.
They insisted the family had been unaware of his intentions. Rosenfeld said Duwayit, who was shot dead at the scene, had shouted the Muslim slogan 'Allahu akbar!' (
Bearing placards reading 'Destroy the house' and 'We want revenge', about 30 right-wing Israelis were given armed police protection to protest at the house occupied by about 20 relatives of Duwayit in a West Bank village annexed to Jerusalem by Israel.