After a 6-hour manhunt: The terrorist who carried out the attack near the Western Wall was captured

August 14, 2022   

Eight people were injured last night (Sunday), two of them seriously, in a shooting attack carried out on a bus on Line 3 between the Garbage Gate and David's Tomb and at another scene near the Western Wall. You bought an apartment: What compensation are you entitled to due to a delay in the delivery of the apartment? Security forces immediately began a manhunt for the terrorist, who fled the scene of the attack immediately after the shooting spree. After about six hours of searches, the terrorist, Amir Sidawi, an Israeli Arab, about 26 years old from East Jerusalem, arrived at the police station and turned himself in to the police. He was immediately taken in for questioning. The weapon used in the attack was also found in the police's possession. The taxi driver who brought the terrorist to the police was also detained for questioning, after a gun and a knife left behind by the terrorist were found in the taxi. After giving testimony, he was released. The two seriously injured, along with six other moderately and lightly injured, were evacuated to hospitals in Jerusalem. Among the seriously injured was a 35-year-old pregnant woman and Rabbi Yehoshua Zvi Glick, a Satmar Hasid from New York, with a head injury, sedated and on a ventilator. The Glick family, Satmar Hasids from New York, arrived in Israel on vacation. They were on their way back from King David's Tomb when they encountered the terrorist. Four family members were waiting at a nearby bus stop, and as a result of the shooting, the father, Rabbi Yehoshua Zvi ben Sara, was seriously injured and admitted to emergency surgery. His son, son-in-law Baruch Bendit ben Hanna Gitel, was also injured. The director of the trauma unit at Shaare Zedek Hospital, Dr. Alon Schwartz, updated this morning that the woman who was seriously injured underwent an emergency birth, and that the newborn's condition is serious but stable. Four more lightly injured people are still hospitalized in the hospital's emergency department. Magen David Adom reported that the shooting took place in two scenes: one at the bus on Ma'ale Hashalom Street and the second scene on Ma'ale Shazhak Street at the entrance to the King David Tomb parking lot, at the corner of the Ma'ale Hashalom Highway. The bus driver, Daniel Kanievsky, recalled: "The bus was full, it was blown up. They lowered the ramp for a wheelchair - and then the shooting started. Two people were injured inside and two outside. All the people were on the floor, screaming. I tried to escape, but you can't drive with the ramp open." Senior MDA motorcycle medic Nehemiah Katz and MDA paramedic David Trachtenberg said: "We arrived at the scene very quickly. On Ma'ale Hashalom Street, we saw a bus with passengers standing in the middle of the road. People signaled us to come to two men in their 30s who were on the bus and suffered from gunshot wounds. They were fully conscious and walking, with gunshot wounds to their upper bodies. We gave them life-saving medical treatment and put them in MDA ambulances that arrived at the scene. From there they were evacuated to a hospital in mild to moderate condition. "From there we continued to the entrance to the David's Tomb parking lot and saw four men, one of whom was about 50 years old and three of whom were about 30 years old, lying fully conscious and suffering from gunshot wounds to their upper bodies. A short time later, the MDA ATV brought us another injured woman, a woman in her 30s who was conscious, with gunshot wounds. We gave the injured medical treatment. "We urgently evacuated them to hospitals, with 2 in serious condition and 5 in mild to moderate condition." Moshe Levy, Deputy Director General of United Hatzalah, said: "It was a very difficult scene. The sight of the blood-stained tzitzit and the orphaned baby stroller will be etched in my memory for many years to come. We provided first aid to the victims who suffered gunshot wounds, some seriously and some lightly. The victims told us that they had returned from praying at the Western Wall.""