IDF arrests Palestinian tractor driver who fled West Bank crash
Three Israelis injured after tractor slammed into their car; IDF believes incident not terror-related.
By Anshel Pfeffer and Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Israel terrorism Israel newsIsrael Defense Forces troops late Monday arrested the Palestinian tractor driver who fled after slamming into two Israeli cars near an outpost in the northern West Bank.
The IDF said that the crash, which left three Israelis light injured, was likely a standard road accident and not the deliberate result of terrorism as was initially suspected.
The crash caused the first vehicle to stop at the side of the road, and the car traveling behind it swerved in attempt to avoid crashing into the halted vehicle, and overturned into a ditch. The driver of the overturned car, Yehudit Mizrachi, was slightly injured in the incident.
The Palestinian tractor driver fled the scene soon after the incident, leading forces from the Central Command to open a search for him.
In the last few years, there have been three terror attacks perpetrated by tractor drivers.
In April 2009, two police officers were lightly wounded in Jerusalem when an Arab bulldozer driver overturned their police car and rammed it into a bus, before being shot by police and a taxi driver. He later died of his wounds.
In July 2008, a Palestinian went on a rampage in a bulldozer on Jaffa Street, killing three people and wounding dozens more. Two weeks later, a resident of East Jerusalem carried out a similar attack, wounding at least 24 people.
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But an Israeli is of course safe in Gaza and the West Bank
The bottom line is that it is illegal to flee from an accident scene if you are involved.
the car tire burst causing it to swerve into the the path of the military jeep. But of course facts are irrelevant when they are inconvenient, eh?
pal on a tractor bumping into an Israeli car could be a coincidence and an accident, but hitting two Israeli cars can no longer be called coincidental. before we make further judgments, we better wait for de decision of the court.
West Bank? Does HaAretz mean Judea and Samaria? If a Jewish publication acquiesces to the terminology used by the antagonists of Israel, what does that say?
No matter what, the tractor,s driver is guilty ofcourse. He is a palestinian person and palestinians are and should be guilty until proven innocent. It is the israeli justice with the palestinians anyway, kill the suker first then acuse him of threatning a jewish civilian or a solddier with a stone or atractor or anything.
the automatic assumption is voiced in the article: "terrorism!"... with an automatic response of: "kill him!" and of course he'll automatically be hung out to dry because: "he ran". it must suck being in a place where you're forced to live in constant fear of abuse, injustice, and even death...without ever having any recourse.
Funny when IDF vehicle crashed into Palestinian car killing 6 they were not arrested. NZ is laughing at you Israel. When are you going to withdraw from the West Bank Israel and stop this nonsense?
Did they arrest the mosque arsons?
Did no bystander shoot the tractor driver because it was a normal traffic accident OR was it a normal traffic accident because no bystander had his/her gun ready? What makes the terrorist a terrorist in situations like these - his actions or the reactions of the others?
working on Israel lands
So if a Palestinian breathed near an Israeli it is an act of terror.... phobia!
Accident or not, he's already dead. Salaam/Shalom
Been there. Done that. This guy is just a copycat to the two Jerusalem tractor attacks.
...that this was deliberate, but they should remember the accident which killed six Palestinian civilians in a collision with an IDF jeep; it is often almost impossible to know who was to blame...