(JNi.media) Two weeks ago, Sergeant Yuval Apel regained consciousness at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. In early August, Apel and his friend Yaron Ashkenazi were seriously wounded and their commander was lightly injured in a terror car attack near the village of Sinjil, an Arab town 13 miles northeast of Ramallah. But now, according to Army Radio, which obtained the indictment in their case on Thursday morning, it turns out that the plan of the Arab attacker, Raed Mohammed Ibrahim Beduan from the village of Biddu near Ramallah, was far more bloodthirsty and homicidal.
From the indictment, submitted Wednesday to the Judea Military Court against terrorist car attacker Raed Beduan, it appears that he had planned, after conducting two reconnaissance patrols, to carry out an attack against a bus full of Israeli civilians, ramming his vehicle into the bus and then murdering the injured passengers using an ax.
Beduan furnished the ax and placed it in his car. On the day of the attack he drove to the Sinjil area, where he saw a bus loaded with Israeli soldiers. The bus moved away before he could carry out his plan, but then he spotted three soldiers who were walking by the side of the road and decided to murder them. He drove into them with his car, wounding two of them seriously, and then took the ax from the vehicle and went about killing the wounded soldiers who were lying on the road. That’s when the force commander, Major Daniel Elbaz, noticed him running and shot him, injuring him severely.
According to the indictment, Beduan decided to carry out his attack when he was watching news reports about the ascent of Jews to the Temple Mount, and the July 30 torching of a home in the village of Duma, where eventually four member of an Arab family perished. He decided to carry out a revenge attack and murder Israelis, and two days later he was already conducting his first preliminary tour. Just a week later, he carried out the car attack near the Sinjil intersection.