Jerusalem – Israeli Policeman Wounded In Vehicular Terror Attack Last Week Succumbs To Wounds

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    Benjamin JakubowiczJerusalem – A 19-year-old Border Police officer succumbed to his wounds on Sunday evening, days after he was critically wounded in a ramming attack near Hebron.

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    The Border Police named the officer as First Sergeant Benyamin Yakobovitch, adding that he leaves behind his parents, two sisters and a brother.

    His family has decided to donate his organs, the Border Police said. Yakobovitch will be buried on Monday evening in the military section of the Kiryat Ata cemetery.

    Yakobovitch was standing with a group of Border Police officers on the side of Route 60 near the Palestinian town of Halhoul when a Palestinian driver approaching a curve sped up and swerved into them.

    Yakobovitch was hit with great force and was treated at the scene in critical condition with extensive internal injuries.

    The Palestinian driver was shot dead at the scene.

    Magen David Adom paramedic Dvora Aviad said first responders found the wounded officer lying on the side of the road with serious and extensive internal injuries.

    MDA paramedics, along with IDF medics, gave the officer first aid and evacuated him while he was unconscious and not breathing on his own, Aviad said.

    Not far away, three Border Police officers were wounded in a suspected ramming attack, when a Palestinian driver struck them at the Beit Einun junction on Route 60, northeast of Hebron.

    Route 60 in the West Bank has been the site of a series of ramming attacks and stabbings recently, in particular in the Hebron area and in Gush Etzion.

    On Sunday morning, five Israelis were wounded in a vehicular terror attack at the Tapuah junction in the Samaria region of the West Bank.

    Border police at the scene shot and killed the Palestinian driver.

    Magen David Adom said two men, 22, were moderately to seriously wounded. A third man, 23, was moderately wounded and a pregnant woman was lightly wounded. A young Israeli woman was also lightly injured by shards of glass.
    FILE - An Israeli security man guards the scene where a Palestinian car ramming attack wounded two Israelis at Halhoul junction north the West Bank city of Hebron November 4, 2015.  REUTERS/Ammar Awad


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    Berel13
    Berel13
    8 years ago

    bd’e

    lazerx
    lazerx
    8 years ago

    BD”E, may he be the last one we loose and may HaShem avenge his death…