​(Communicated by the ISA)

The following has been cleared for publication:

On 10 December 2017, Yasin Abu al-Kara, born in 1993, a resident of Wadi Fara, near Nablus, who had been present in Israel illegally, stabbed and severely wounded a security guard at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station. Al-Kara took advantage of a work permit he had received to engage in agricultural work in the seam zone.

During his investigation it was learned that he planned and perpetrated the attack on his own. He had been influenced by online incitement following the US declaration recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

The suspect wrote a will prior to carrying out the attack in which he used a citation about martyrs found in a Palestinian Authority (PA) textbook.

This attack stresses the severe incitement to which Palestinians in Judea and Samaria are exposed as well as the influence of material studied in PA textbooks as a motivating factor and source of inspiration for terrorist attacks against Israelis.

The State Attorney's office (Jerusalem District), today (Thursday, 28 December 2017), filed an indictment against Abu al-Kara.