Posted on 10/24/2014 5:40:58 AM PDT by SJackson
JNS.org - Three-month-old infant Chaya Zissel Braun, who died in the hospital after her stroller was hit in Wednesday’s vehicular terror attack on the Ammunition Hill light rail station in Jerusalem, was a U.S. citizen.
“We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack, and extend our prayers for a full recovery to those injured,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Chaya and her parents were on their way back from the infant’s first visit to the Western Wall.
“They had their picture taken,” said Chaya’s grandfather, Shimshon Halperin, according to Israel Hayom. “They held her in the direction of the Temple Mount. They told her ‘that is where the Temple was, and that is Temple Mount.’”
The parents had just gotten off the light rail. The attacker waited for people to gather at the station and then accelerated, driving directly into the crowd.
“The car hit the baby’s stroller,” Halperin said. “The baby flew 10 or 20 meters (30-60 feet) in the air and hit her head on the concrete. The doctors at the hospital did the best they could. I want to thank them.”
Chaya’s parents had “waited for a baby for several years,” said Halperin.
“The parents are in shock,” he said. “They are traumatized. The baby was born after a long period of time that they did not have children, and they were overjoyed at her arrival. I have been living in the U.S. for 40 years, but we were here with them for the holiday. I kept joking that God sent them a gift from heaven.”
The attacker, 21-year-old eastern Jerusalem resident Abed al-Rahman Shaludi, was shot by a police officer and later died of his wounds in hospital. Shaludi was a Hamas activist who had been imprisoned in Israel for 16 months for security offenses. Released from prison in December 2013, Shaludi was the nephew of Mohiyedine Sharif, a one-time commander of Hamas’s armed wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam brigades.
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I'm surprised the Justice Dept. isn't sending a task force to investigate why an Israeli policeman shot an unarmed Arab simply exiting his vehicle. Guess they're too busy in Ferguson, or maybe assembling a task force to investigate the killing of a minority aspiring lumberjack yesterday in NYC
That baby and that murderer will never see each other again. They certainly went in opposite directions. And that is a very good thing.
Obama quietly approves of this infants death.
God rest the soul of Chaya.
Dig him up and shoot him again. Why was he released from custody? Another one of those “exchanges?” Perhaps at the urging of Kerry for the “peace” process? You know what Einstein said about insanity ...
Did she follow that up with the usual foolish call for restraint on both sides?
The US State Dept gave the money for the murder.
And they KNEW it would kill Jews and Christians
... before the fact.
It was not the first US State Dept-aided murder.
Obama just looks at is an involuntary, post-partum abortion and he has no problem with abortion of any kind.
The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem. We express our deepest condolences to the family of the baby, reportedly an American citizen, who was killed in this despicable attack, and extend our prayers for a full recovery to those injured. We urge all sides to maintain calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of this incident.
Why should the murder a a 3 month old escalate tensions, she was a Jew after all.
You won’t see any statements from the White House. This baby wouldn’t have grown up to look like his daughters.
I had to erase what I had written, you expressed it in acceptable language. What it takes for michelle obama to be proud of America has an opposite effect on me.
The parents should never have been living there.
Not a peep from Obama.
Why shouldn’t they be living in Jerusalem?
Gee, I dunno, maybe because of ISIS, Hamas, and every other fill in the blank islamic wackos targeting it. But then you knew the answer.
Seems like you’re blaming the victim. The terrorists win if they can drive Jews out of Israel, don’t they. Should random terror attacks become a fact of life in the US, where should Americans live. Actually with the exception of 2001 to 2006 there isn’t much difference between the two countries given the large difference in murder rates. Maybe we should all move to Switzerland.
1. Did the wretched Obama admin also urge "all sides" in Canada to avoid escalating tensions?
2. Did they accidentally acknowledge that the Muslim killer in Jerusalem belongs to a "side" - and that his motives are indeed shared by larger group?-
Will Holder seek extradition of the perp to prosecute them here? (fat chance of that)
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