Military prosecution indicts four Palestinians involved in Ramot Junction terror attack

The indictment explains that these people were responsible for providing the terrorists with weapons and transporting them from the West Bank to the bus stop before the attack.

Four Palestinian residents from east Jerusalem and the West Bank were indicted for allegedly collaborating with the terrorists during the deadly terror attack at Ramot Junction on September 8, where six people were murdered and dozens were wounded, Israel Police said on Friday.

The suspects are accused of providing the terrorists with weapons and transporting them from the West Bank to the bus stop before the attack, police said.

“Detectives from the Jerusalem Police Headquarters, in collaboration with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), arrested the four suspects on the same day of the attack,” the statement explained.

“With the conclusion of the investigation phase, an evidentiary foundation was formed against them, and an indictment is expected to be filed against them. An indictment was already filed against the east Jerusalem resident who drove them to the scene of the attack about two weeks ago.”

On October 10, the IDF announced that it had blown up a building in the town of Katana, near Jerusalem, on October 10, which belonged to a terrorist who took part in the attack.

“Everyone who lends a hand to terrorism should know that even if they did not pull the trigger, they bear direct responsibility for the act of terrorism,” the police warned.

The Ramot Junction terror attack

On the day of the attack, the terrorists boarded the Line 62 bus in Jerusalem, which operates across the city, and began shooting at passengers.

At least 21 were wounded at the scene and were transported to three different medical centers, including Shaare Zedek and Hadassah-University Medical Centers at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus. Upwards of 26 individuals at the scene were treated for anxiety.

Yaakov Pinto, 25, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Pash, Israel Mentzer, 28, and Yosef David, 43, Sarah Mendelson, 60, and Rabbi Mordechai Steinsteg, 79, were killed during the attack.

Pinto immigrated from Spain and was recently married. Pash taught at a Jerusalem yeshiva. Mentzer and David were residents of the Ramot neighborhood.

Mendelson served as the director of Public Relations in the Bnei Akiva youth movement treasury. Steinsteg, a resident of Ramot and retired cardiologist, owned the well-known bakery, Dr. Mark’s Pastry, located in Beit Shemesh.

Walla contributed to this report.