Muhammed Naif El-Ja'abis
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Muhammed Naif El-Ja’abis is the perpetrator of the 2014 Jerusalem excavator attack, which killed one and injured five. El-Ja'abis operated a tractor and rammed it directly towards a bus. Naif El-Ja’abis, 23, turned the bus over onto its side during the attack, making several efforts to do so before he succeeded.
A male pedestrian, 29-year-old Avraham Walz, was ran over and killed by the tractor as El-Ja'abis attempted to ram the bus. The bus driver as well as five bus passengers were lightly injured from the attack, sustaining only minor injuries.
El Ja'abis attempted to flee the scene after causing the crash. However, police managed to shoot him dead. It has been suspected that Ja’abis may have carried out the attack as an act of vengeance after his cousin’s home was demolished weeks before the incident.