KFAR YONA: The Israeli military said eight soldiers were wounded on Thursday when a driver deliberately rammed his car into a bus stop in what police called a “terror attack”.

The army said two soldiers were “moderately injured” and six “lightly injured” in the attack at the Beit Lid junction near Kfar Yona in central Israel.

“The soldiers were evacuated to a hospital to receive medical treatment and their families have been notified,” it said in a statement.

A teenager died in March this year when police said a car driven by a Palestinian man deliberately ploughed into civilians at a bus stop in northern Israel.

One witness to Thursday’s ramming said the driver cut her off the road near Kfar Yona, then “turned his wheel to the right, full gas, as fast as he could, and hit as many people as he could”.

Kineret Hanuka, 45, said: “I saw only blood and heard them screaming: ‘It hurts!’... It was so hard for me to see this.” Israel’s Magen David Adom first responders said they received a report at 9:25am (0625 GMT) that a vehicle had crashed into a bus stop near Kfar Yona.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2025