Update on Tractor Terror Attack

As the information becomes available it appears that the tractor terrorist was aiming towards a busload of young women who were dressed in Purim costumes and on their way to Hadassah Ein Karem to cheer up the patients before the holiday.

It's not clear whether the police car got in the way and he picked it up in the jaws of the bulldozer enroute to the bus or if his intent was to use the police car as an additional ramming rod. Somehow an electric pole that had fallen (unclear) blocked him from reaching the bus. When police and civilians began firing on the tractor driver, the girls were evacuated from the bus, several being treated for shock.

A joint effort at killing the terrorist finally accomplished the goal. 100 bullets into him would be too few in my opinion.

Just in, information that the terrorist was a married 26 year old father of one child. He lived in Beit Hanina, an arab neighborhood in the northern part of Jerusalem, however, he did not carry an Israeli ID but a Palestinian one.

This is quite revealing, as it now appears he was living within Jerusalem illegally, and employed by the tractor company. There have been no reports as to what the tractor was involved with construction wise, other than to say that the driver drove his tractor unhindered through the City on his way to the Malha area....that story is still developing.