The attack that took place Thursday in Jerusalem joins other attacks in the city recently, and in general throughout the history in which the Israeli capital suffers from terrorism. Just three weeks ago, Border Police soldier Ross Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin was murdered in the Old City. Many security forces, including IDF fighters, Border Police fighters and many police forces with the assistance of the Shin Bet.
2012 was the first year in 40 years that no Israelis were killed in attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank, but after that an escalation began in the capital.
Retired Major General Aryeh Amit, who was commander of the Jerusalem district in the mid-90s, describes the attacks in the city: "Attacks of this kind are very difficult to prevent in advance. These are attacks for which there is no intelligence, they are attacks by one or two lone terrorists, which occur when there is a mood or opportunity. These are terrorists who act alone and prepare the attack ahead of time, and when they have the chance, they carry it out. There is really no way to prevent them, and the right method is to respond as quickly as possible and neutralize the terrorists."
Jerusalem - a city plagued by terror
The attack at the Tunnel Checkpoint, November 16, 11.
Two weeks ago, soldier Avraham Patna was murdered in an attack at the tunnel checkpoint at the exit from Jerusalem towards Gush Etzion. Three terrorists unloaded their vehicle and began firing massively at those present at the checkpoint.
The scene of the attack at the Tunnel Checkpoint in Jerusalem, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The attack at the Shuafat checkpoint, February 13, 2
A Border Police soldier and a security guard boarded a bus that arrived at the Shuafat checkpoint to check its passengers when 13-year-old terrorist Muhammad Basel Fathi Zalabani stabbed a Border Police soldier in the face. The security guard opened fire at the terrorist, wounding him. A Border Police soldier, First Sergeant Asil Su'ad, 22, from Husniyeh, was critically wounded and pronounced dead a few hours later.
Vehicular attack in the Ramot neighborhood, February 10, 2.
The terrorist, Hussein Qaraqe, a 31-year-old Palestinian from the Issawiya neighborhood of East Jerusalem, accelerated his car and crashed into a bus stop at the entrance to the Ramot neighborhood, while many passengers were waiting.
The scene of the vehicular attack in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. , the vehicle in which the terrorist arrived. Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The brothers Yaakov Israel Pelay, 5, and Menachem Asher Pelay, 7, were murdered in the attack. Alter Shlomo Lederman, 20, whose wife was also wounded in the attack, was murdered instantly. Five people were injured.
The attack in Neve Yaakov, January 27, 1.
The serious attack took place on Friday night, when a Palestinian from East Jerusalem shot and killed civilians in the Neve Yaakov neighborhood of Jerusalem. Seven people were murdered and three others were wounded. The terrorist was shot dead by police.
The victims of the attack in Neve Yaakov in the background of the scene of the attack in January 2023, photo: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash 90, use is made in accordance with section 27A of the Copyright Law, courtesy of the families
The terrorist, 'Alkam Khairi, 21, from the a-Tur neighborhood, drove to the Neve Yaakov neighborhood in the evening and parked on Tabenkin Street, near the Ateret Avraham synagogue. Khairi got out of his car and opened fire at a motorcyclist, then shot passersby in the street.
The double IED attack, November 23, 11.
About a year ago, on November 23, a double IED attack was carried out in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem, killing 16-year-old yeshiva student Aryeh Shchopek z"l and Tadesse Teshome, 50, also a resident of Jerusalem. The terrorist, Islam Faruh, 26, an Israeli resident with a blue ID card, his mother an Israeli and his father a resident of Ramallah, planted remotely activated IEDs that created a powerful explosion.
Islam Faruh, the terrorist from the double IED attack, photo: Oren Ben Hakoun
The shooting attack at the Shuafat checkpoint, 8 October 10.
On Saturday evening, a vehicle arrived at the Shuafat checkpoint, from which terrorist Uday Tamimi, 22, from East Jerusalem, exited and opened fire at a group of fighters and security guards standing at the security checkpoint. Noa Lazar, a soldier from the Military Police Corps, was killed in the shooting.
Noa Lazar, z"l, was murdered in an attack at the Shuafat checkpoint. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
David Morel, a civilian security guard, was seriously wounded in the attack and two Border Police officers sustained minor injuries. The terrorist fled on foot into the Shuafat refugee camp. The driver who drove the terrorist later turned himself in to the police, and during interrogation said he was on his way to intelligence.
Terrorist Uday Tamimi attempted another attack on October 19 in Ma'ale Adumim, where he was killed by security guards.
The attack near the International Convention Center, March 23, 3
The attack occurred in the morning at the bus stop near Binyanei Ha'uma, while Egged bus number 74 arrived at the scene, a few seconds before the explosion, a store owner near the station called the police with a report of a suspicious object weighing two kilograms that was attached to the landline phone at the site; During the conversation, the IED exploded.
The scene of the attack near Binyanei Ha'uma in 2011, photo: Yoav Ari Dudkevich
A tourist from Britain was murdered in the attack, and 38 people were wounded, 3 of them critically. One of the wounded, 14, died of her wounds six years after the attack, while lying unconscious at Shaare Zedek Hospital all these years.
The attack on the ice cream parlor in Zion Square, 13.11.1975.
Arab gunmen placed an IED in a luggage cart that exploded outside an ice cream parlor in Zion Square in the evening. Many shop windows near the site of the attack were damaged as a result of the force of the explosion.
Six teenagers were murdered in the attack, including three boys and three girls. Forty-two people were injured in the attack, including two tourists from the United States and the Netherlands.
The attack in the Mahane Yehuda market, 30.7.1997
A double suicide bombing attack carried out by two Hamas operatives in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Sixteen people were murdered and 16 were wounded.
Mahane Yehuda Market. , 16 murdered in 1997. Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The terrorists, disguised as ultra-Orthodox, detonated their IEDs almost simultaneously, standing about 45 meters apart in a central alley in the market.
The attack on Ben Yehuda Street, 22.2.1948
The attack occurred during the War of Independence. Designed by Abd al-Qader al-Husseini and Fawzi al-Qutb, and carried out by soldiers who deserted from the British Army and used British Army vehicles and weapons. Three buildings on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem (two hotels and a residential building) were destroyed, shattering glass throughout the city.
58 people were murdered in the attack, 49 of whom were found dead in the rubble of the buildings and 9 who later succumbed to their wounds, along with 38 others who were wounded.
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