4 Jews, 1 Arab wounded in Jerusalem rock attack on Mount of Olives
Palestinian youths threw barrage of rocks at bus, two cars in east Jerusalem neighborhood.
By DANIEL K. EISENBUDA view of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Four Jewish teens and one Arab woman were lightly wounded in rock attacks on a bus and two cars in east Jerusalem’s A-Tur neighborhood on the Mount of Olives Tuesday night.According to police, the attack took place at approximately 9:30 p.m. when Palestinian youths threw a barrage of rocks at the vehicles without provocation, shattering the bus’s and both cars’ windshields.Magen David Adom first responders arrived at the scene within minutes to treat the four Jewish teenage passengers, between the ages of 16 and 18, and a Palestinian woman in her 50s, for light wounds sustained from the shattered glass.While one of the Jewish victims was treated for a minor wound at the scene, the other four were transferred to Hadassah University Medical Center in Ein Kerem.Police are searching for the suspects.