Arab driver arrested after he crashed his car into a bus stop, killed one person and seriously injured his girlfriend

The head of Israel's police said Thursday that the Jerusalem incident in which a Palestinian man swerved his car into Shalom Sharki and his girlfriend Shira Klein was most likely a terror attack. Police said the lengthy interrogation gave cause to believe that Khaled Koutineh, from the village pf Anata, was motivated by nationalistic reasons to drive his vehicle into the bus stop in the Frence hill junction in Jerusalem. Koutineh was working as a cleaner in a local mosque. His wife said to the media it must have been an accident since he suffer from a health problem, taking medicine, and is not interested in politics at all. Sharki and Klien were seriously injured by the vehicle Wednesday night at the French Hill junction in Jerusalem as they waited for a bus before being hit in what is now being investigated as yet another incident of vehicular terror. At the time, police said the driver "swerved from his lane and hit two civilians standing at the station". Sharki was laid to rest Thursday, with his father, Rabbi Uri Sharki, eulogizing him as a hero who attempted to save his friend from what he called a "terrorist". "We have no doubt this a terror attack - this boy was sitting in a bus station with a young girl and the terrorist rammed himself into them and killed him because he was Jewish," the rabbi said. Over 2,000 people attended his funeral, which his partner, Klein, was unable to attend as she lays in a hospital bed, still in serious condition from the attack. The capital of Jerusalem has seen a spate of car-ramming attacks over the past year, in which Palestinian "lone-wolf" assailants have used their vehicles as weapons to mow down Israeli civilians. Such attacks were usually spontaneous. Photos: The scene of attack, the victim and his funeral



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