The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office has filed an indictment against the owner of a Jerusalem taxi company and two drivers for transporting the Palestinian terrorists who carried out last month’s shooting at a Tel Aviv-Jaffa light rail station, Israel’s State Attorney’s Office said on Sunday.
According to the preliminary indictment filed with the Tel Aviv District Court, the company and its drivers shuttled illegal Palestinian infiltrators across the Jewish state’s pre-1967 lines, including the two gunmen who murdered seven in the Oct. 1 terrorist attack in Jaffa.
The business owner is being charged with transporting illegals under aggravated circumstances, causing death and damage by negligence and obstruction of justice. The two taxi drivers stand accused of seven counts of reckless homicide and grievous bodily harm due to their failure to question the terrorists, who were carrying an assault rifle.
The District Attorney’s Office requested that the three suspects remain in custody pending the end of the proceedings, saying that they “contributed to a horrific attack in which seven people lost their lives. They were the ones who drove and led the terrorists to their destination while taking the excessive risk of this terrible outcome, and through their actions, they demonstrated the security danger they pose to the Israeli public.”
The terrorists who carried out the attack, residents of Hebron in Judea, crossed the pre-1967 lines in the Jerusalem area. They were neutralized at the scene by police officers, municipal security and armed civilians.
Police identified the gunmen as 19-year-old Mohammad Mask, who was killed at the scene, and Ahmad Himoni, 25, who was severely wounded.
According to a recent Army Radio report, conditions along the Jerusalem Seam Line have deteriorated to the level they were before the surge in terrorist attacks of 2022 and 2023, with hundreds of gaps along the entire security fence and thousands of Arabs crossing illegally every day.
The defense establishment estimates that there are some 40,000 people illegally inside Israel’s Green Line and is warning that the Jaffa attack could be only the beginning unless the issue is addressed, Army Radio reported.
