Severely injured father of children killed in Jerusalem attack wakes up from coma

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Abraham Paley, the father of two boys killed by a Palestinian terrorist at a bus stop on February 10, has come out of a coma, the Hadassah Medical Center said. on Monday evening.

“After more than two weeks of drug-induced coma, Paley's condition has improved and he is “communicating with his environment”– said Dr. Vernon Van Heerden, head of the intensive care unit at Ein Karem Hospital. . At the same time, he has not yet been informed of the death of his sons.

“Now my husband's life is out of danger, thank God, and his condition has improved significantly”,– Paley's wife Deborah said. “Of course he doesn’t know about the great catastrophe. It will be difficult, but we will get through this.

Thirty-one-year-old terrorist Hossein Karaka crashed his car into a bus stop in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem on February 10, instantly killing Paley's six-year-old son, Yaakov Yisrael. His eight-year-old son Asher Menachem died of his injuries the next day, as did Shlomo Alter Lederman, 20.

Three others were wounded in the attack, including Payel's eldest boy, who suffered minor injuries.
The police shot the terrorist at the scene. The investigation showed that Karaka was released from a psychiatric hospital just a few days before the attack.

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