Jerusalem: Along divided city's seam, two die in third recent attack
(The Christian Science Monitor) Jerusalem appears to be coming apart, literally at its seam, with three violent attacks in as many weeks taking place on the main road separating mostly Jewish West Jerusalem from the largely Arab East.
On Wednesday two people were killed, including the attacker, and more than a dozen wounded when a Palestinian man, Moussa Ibrahim al-Akari, rammed his car into a crowd at a light rail station before continuing down the road and hitting a few more cars. He exited the car with a metal rod in his hand and wounded several people, one fatally, before police shot and killed him, according to police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
The militant Palestinian organization Hamas praised the attack and identified Akari, who was recently released from Israeli prison, as a member of the group.
