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Israel to fortify bus stops in Jerusalem following vehicular attack

Xinhua, December 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Monday to fortify hundreds of bus stops in Jerusalem, just hours after a vehicular attack at a crowded bus station in the city.

Earlier on Monday, 14 Israelis were injured after a car rammed into them at a bus stop in Sderot Herzel, at the entrance to the city, the Israeli police said.

The driver, a Palestinian by the name of Abed al-Muhasan Hasuna from Beit Hanina in northeast Jerusalem, was shot and killed by security forces at the scene.

Hours after the attack, Netanyahu said Israel will not be defeated by a "new kind of terrorism" manifested in the current wave of car-ramming attacks, stabbings and other acts of violence carried out by "individual" attackers.

Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said in local TV on Monday evening that there is "no end seen in sight" for the current wave of violence, which started in October.

Nineteen Israelis and more than 110 Palestinians have been killed during the past two months of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. Endit