Fatal West Bank car crash caused by Palestinian stone-throwing
Israel Police confirm Kiryat Arba crash that killed Israeli father and infant son was terror attack despite initial IDF report claiming crash was an accident.
By Chaim Levinson Tags: Palestinians IDF Israel crimeIsrael Police confirmed on Sunday that the road accident that killed a man and his infant son near Kiryat Arba on Friday may have occurred after a rock was thrown at their vehicle.
Police investigating the death of Asher, who was 25-years-old and his one-year-old son Yonatan Palmer, who were found in their car after it flipped over near the West Bank city, discovered a large rock with signs of blood on it.
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Police investigator holds rock allegedly thrown at the car before it veered off the road near Kiryat Arba. |
| Photo by: Tomer Appelbaum |
The Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Office issued a statement shortly after the crash on Friday in which it declared the Palmers' death to be the result of an accident and not a terror attack.
However, police have now verified that the car veered off the road after a rock was allegedly thrown by a Palestinian at the vehicle.
Representatives of the family and the police reached a deal with the Supreme Court on Sunday afternoon allowing the police to take a sample of blood from the elder Palmer’s body to compare it with the blood on the rock. The request had been initially denied.
The funeral for father and son is to be held in Hebron on Sunday evening.
The police first requested permission from the court on Saturday night to autopsy the body of Asher Palmer, who was driving in the car with his son at the time of the crash. A representative of the police, Officer Tzvi Moses, said that the investigation indicated that Palmer veered off the road either because he fell asleep at the wheel or lost consciousness.
Moses added that that there were three rocks in the car, two of which entered the vehicle when it flipped over, and one that went through the front windshield. The police said that there was a gash on Palmer’s lip that could have been caused by a rock, and it is possible that it caused him to veer off the road.
The Hebron District Police are currently investigating 18 cases in which stones were allegedly thrown from Palestinian vehicles, Moses said.
At first, Judge Alexander Ron, whose own son was killed in a car accident a year ago, rejected the request to autopsy the body. He contended that there is no need to conduct an autopsy because “it is highly likely that a rock was thrown that scared the driver and caused the accident.”
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the judge decided that it was highly unlikely, based on what law? The law of Physics? The Law of Stupidity? Its disgusting that a judge would impose his own limited thinking and therfore reduce the police's ability to do their job. he should issue an apology or be fired.
The military & police are useless when it comes to protecting Jews in Samaria & Judea. Recently,my daughter (a nurse at Ein Karen-Hadassah Hosp.) who lives in Efrat was returning home (around midnight) after working the 3 pm-11 pm shift. A boulder landed on the taxi's windshield (there was another nurse also in the cab). The army (who was nearby) took their time responding & didn't attempt to find the terrorists. We citizens must insist/demand that Jewish lives must be protected (even if it means upseting Barak Husein Obama).
Your headline: flat fact. 'Israeli police confirm...' The text: 'The police said that there was a gash on Palmer’s lip that could have been caused by a rock, and it is possible that it caused him to veer off the road. '
Firstly, the idiot who said it was just a "traffic accident" should be fired. A rock thrown with force is a dangerous missle. Settlers should carry guns in their cars and if attacked by rocks, should fire back with guns.
Was Mr. Palmer and his son suppose to be in West Bank legally??? They are not according to all internatinoal law and treaties...
Is there any chance that the bloody rock entered the car the same way as the other rocks?
Any thing to do with Palestenian is terror. Grow up.
the circumstances of the accident have to be found out, and its disturbing, that it takes so long... in general, a driver can have been drugged - maybe by someone else... or a tire broke, was this ruled out ?
must be an accident.
Load of bull. It's probably a rock the car landed on
It's pretty simple, really. If someone is travelling in a car at, say, 60 mph and lightly tosses a rock or a brick out the window into the path of an oncoming car also travelling at 60 mph, then if the rock hits the oncoming car, it will hit at the equivalent of 120 mph. Imagine the damage and death that a brick or a rock will do if it hits you in the head at 120 mph. Palestinian terrorists have done this many, many times over the years against Israeli cars (easily identified by their Israeli license plates), maiming and killing many Jews. And getting away with this kind of murder is simplicity itself. Palis have done it so many times. Does anyone still believe in peace with Palestinians?
Now just so I am clear: I am not advocating violence and death. But why were those Jews in the area again? They are not supposed to be in Kiryat Arba anyway. Simple as that.
And of course, the rocks thrown by Israeli Settlers are not as deadly....
thats better than the hellfire missiles that the brave men of the IDF use against schools and hospitals. by then way the speed doesnt double when two opposing objects collide, momentum takes place and the glass shatters.
What a load of crap! ROFL. Are you people never embarrassed by your antics? I am and I have nothing to do with it. It's very painful to watch your contortions in order to justify the unjustifiable. Occupation and Apartheid are, by any other name, occupation and Apartheid even if some idiot is calling it "terrorist physics" - WTF?
You asked "does anyone still believe in peace with Palestinians" The Palestinians do. The only problem is they spell peace as piece. And what they want is the whole PIECE of Israel and nothing less will satisfy them.
Sad though this incident is, I'm not sure it can be classed as a terrorist attack. It's a rock throwing which has resulted in two deaths, one tragically young.
So don't call it terrorism just call it murder.
I get it! It was kids practicing at baseball, and a stone "was thrown" that "resulted" in two deaths, neither of which was terror and one of which was something other than tragic. Hey, even Ha'aretz acknowledges terrorism, if not always terrorists.
if it doesnt involve hijacking airplanes and crushing them on buildings so its not terrorism. its just an innocent cute little stone throwing (driving car? doesnt matter). one day to you and your family...
that resulted from planes crashing into the buildings. It was not a terrorist attack, it was a plane crash which resulted in three thousand deaths.
if they threw a grenade? A molotov cocktail? really, this shows that a rock is just as lethal and if the motive was to inflict damage, its a terrorist attack.
If it was a bullet shot at the car would you consider that terror? Stoning was a form of capital punishment for thousands of years- just because it is primitive doesn't mean it is not dangerous- or TERROR attack pure and simple. I
How weird that the IDF fist stated that it was an accident, when the ploice found out otherwise! Is it possible that the IDF simply wanted to prevent the truth from coming out because they did not want violence with Palestinians to occur, due to the very delicate period at the U>N> If so, this is totally unacceptable.
I get the feeling that the man driving the car was religious therefore he would not have been driving during Shabbat. Why would he have fallen asleep because it would have been during the day. Secondly those who doze off awake suddenly and tend to step on the break quickly causing tire marks.
if hit by a rock, there should definitely... when he fell asleep then not so likely...