Last Friday, Yaakov Yisrael Paley, 5, and his brother, Asher Menahem Paley, 7, waited with their older brother and father at an East Jerusalem bus stop. The family was embarking on a long-awaited family celebration. But not everyone in the large family could fit in the car. So, Dad and the boys waited for the bus that would reunite the family for their special Shabbat.

But the celebration never took place, thanks to 31-year-old Hussein Qaraqa. As Avraham escorted his two small boys to the bus stop, Qaraqa hit the accelerator and rammed his car into the family and the nearly full bus shelter.

Devorah’s older son called her screaming that there had been an attack on the bus stop. He was only lightly injured, but he could not find his father or his little brothers. Though several months pregnant, Devorah rushed to the scene in hopes of helping her older son find his brothers and father.

Devorah reached the chaotic scene, and her heart sank. Bodies were strewn around the twisted wreckage of the bus shelter and the crumpled blue Mazda whose grill was stuck on the bus stop sign. This was a major terror attack, and “my family is at the center of it,” she said.

“At a certain point, someone came up to me and asked me if I can identify a boy,” Devorah said. The child was Yaakov, the life crushed out of his young body. Devorah’s youngest son was dead.

Seven-year-old Asher had been rushed to the hospital but was overcome by his injuries the next day.

The terrorist’s actions also killed 20-year-old newlywed Alter Shlomo Lederman. He and his wife of two months were on their way to his parent’s house for shabbat dinner.

Devorah’s husband remains hospitalized in serious condition and does not yet know about the death of two of his sons.

“We hope that when he wakes up, God will give him the strength to face a new reality,” Devorah told local news reporters.

The terrorist’s social media pages were littered with posts celebrating terror incidents. He celebrated terrorists who attack Israelis, writing “Glory to the pure souls,” referring to the attackers.

As Devorah and her family sat shiva, the PA was preparing the monthly bounty that will be paid to the terrorist’s family. For killing Israelis, the PA will pay Hussein Qaraqa’s family a bounty of up to 3,500 dollars per month for life.

And Joe Biden is unlawfully keeping the PA coffers FULL, sending OUR hard-earned tax money to the PA so it can continue paying yet more bounties on Israeli heads.

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Mat Staver
Chairman
Christians in Defense of Israel

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Sources:

Fabian, Emanuel. “Two killed in Jerusalem terror ramming, including 6-year-old boy; driver shot dead.” The Times of Israel, February 10, 2023. Timesofisrael.com/at-least-6-wounded-2-seriously-in-suspected-car-ramming-attack-in-jerusalem/.

“‘Now they are together in heaven,’ mourns mother of boys slain in Jerusalem ramming.” The Times of Israel, February 13, 2023. Timesofisrael.com/now-they-are-together-in-heaven-mourns-mother-of-boys-slain-in-jerusalem-ramming/.

‌Pollak, Joel B. “Terrorist Kills 7, Wounds 10 in Jerusalem Synagogue Attack on International Holocaust Day.” Breitbart, January 27, 2023. Breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/01/27/terrorist-kills-8-wounds-10-in-jerusalem-synagogue-attack-on-international-holocaust-day/.