Report: Toddler Injured in Jerusalem Ramming Attack Lost his Foot

(JNi.media) According to Maariv, citing “an authoritative source,” the 15-month-old baby who was injured in Monday’s ramming attack in a Jerusalem bus stop lost his leg. So far there is no official confirmation of the report from Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, where he is hospitalized, or from the family. The toddler and his mother were transferred to Hadassah during the night.

Seven victims who were injured in the ramming attack Monday afternoon near Jerusalem’s Chords Bridge are still receiving care in different medical centers in the Capital, including a woman of about 65, who was evacuated for treatment to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, where, according to the hospital, she is still intubated and anesthetized. Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem is treating five light casualties, as well as a number of panic casualties.

The attack involved an Arab terrorist who drove his car, a Mazda, into a bus station on Herzl Street in Jerusalem and ran over a large group of pedestrians. According to Magen David Adom, 11 were treated for varying degrees of injury.

The terrorist, Abed al-Mohsen Hasuna, 21, formerly a resident of Beit Hanina, a predominantly Arab neighborhood of eastern Jerusalem, who lived in Hebron, did not have a security record. He drove his private vehicles with Israeli plates into Herzl Blvd., near the Chords Bridge, and when he reached the bus stop he swerved to the sidewalk, hit a fire hydrant, and proceeded to run over a large group of civilians who were waiting there. A security officer, a security guard and a civilian who saw the ramming attack reacted quickly and fired accurately at the terrorist, before he was able to get out and attack the civilians with an ax that was found in his car. “Their rapid and precise response, resulting in neutralizing the terrorist, prevented a much bigger damage,” said Jerusalem District Commander, Major General Moshe (Chico) Edery.