A Rutgers-bound student with family in New Jersey was among those killed in a severely bloody day of Israeli-Palestinian violence Thursday.
Ezra Schwartz — an 18-year-old American who lived in Sharon, Mass. and who was headed for Rutgers next year — was spending a year in Israel when he died as part of an attack by a Palestinian man that killed three people. Also dead was an Israeli citizen and a Palestinian man, though police said it was unclear if the Palestinian killed was hit by the attacker’s fire or that of Israeli forces.
According to an Associated Press report, a Palestinian motorist opened fire on a line of cars stuck in traffic in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem in the West Bank. The Israeli military said the attacker then intentionally rammed his vehicle into a group of pedestrians.
The military said soldiers shot at the attacker, although his condition and identity were unknown.
According to the Israeli Government Press Office, Schwartz studied in a Jewish seminary outside Jerusalem and had come to Israel on Masa, a program that brings young Jews from abroad to live in the country.
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