The victim of a car explosion in Jaffa has been identified as Ayad Gharb, who was reportedly killed in front of his 6-year-old son.
Sunday morning, the victim of a car explosion in Jaffa was identified as Ayad Gharb. According to reports, his 6-year-old son witnessed the blast. The explosion occurred on Sderot Sa'aron (also reported as Sakharon Street) early Sunday. Police have treated the incident as criminal from the outset, and the victim was not previously known to them.
The thread began with initial reports of a fatal car explosion with a child rescued alive, followed by confirmation that the child was the victim's 6-year-old son, initially reported lightly wounded, then upgraded to moderate and stable condition at Wolfson Medical Center. Multiple Israeli media outlets reported the father was around 40. By 07:30 Jerusalem, police had opened a formal criminal investigation. The identification of Ayad Gharb as the victim is the latest update in this sequence, with his son's presence at the scene now explicitly reported as witnessing the blast.
As The Zioneer has reported, Jaffa has seen recent fatal shootings linked to criminal activity, including a June 25 shooting of a 16-year-old and the assassination of Imad Aghbariya on Highway 65 on June 12, whose son had been killed a month earlier.
The exact time of Sunday's explosion has not been disclosed. No suspects have been named and no motive has been established.
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