A man was killed and his 6-year-old son lightly wounded when an explosive device detonated inside their moving car on S’haron Street in Jaffa on Sunday morning. Police say the incident is criminal and have opened an investigation; the driver’s death was declared at the scene.
Police have confirmed a criminal motive in the fatal car bomb explosion on S'honron Street in Jaffa this morning (Sunday), hours after the blast killed a 40-year-old man and lightly wounded his six-year-old son. Tel Aviv District Commander Haim Sargrof visited the scene and assigned the investigation to the district's central unit; bomb disposal experts and forensics teams are collecting evidence. The child, who was on his way to school, was taken to Wolfson Medical Center and is in moderate, stable condition.
At 07:30 Jerusalem time, multiple thread items reported sequentially: the explosion on S'honron Street (version 7), confirmation of a child being hospitalized (version 8), the rescued child's age (version 9) and light injury (version 10), the child being the victim's son (version 10), his moderate stable condition at Wolfson (versions 11, 13), the father's age (version 12), and the victim being identified as Ayad Gharb (version 16). The motive was first reported as criminal in version 15, which The Zioneer matched as an update. The current bulletin cites police confirmation of that criminal motive and the opening of a formal investigation.
As The Zioneer reported at 10:15 Jerusalem, the victim was identified as Ayad Gharb, who was reportedly killed in front of his son. The Jaffa explosion is being handled as a criminal incident, not a terror attack, police stressed.
The motive — whether personal, financial, or organized crime-linked — remains under investigation. No suspects have been named or arrested. The child's condition may be updated as further medical reports become available.
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