An Israeli man died Saturday from wounds he sustained in twin blasts that hit Jerusalem on Wednesday, bringing to two the number of dead in the explosions that Israeli police blamed on Palestinians.
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Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem announced that Tadese Tashume Ben Ma'ada had died. Ben Ma'ada, 50, was critically wounded in one of the blasts at the city's bus stops.
"The trauma and intensive care teams of Shaare Zedek fought for his life, but unfortunately his injury was very fatal," the hospital said. Ben Ma'ada had immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia some 20 years ago. He was married with two children.
The first explosion occurred near a typically crowded bus stop on the edge of the city. The second went off about half an hour later in Ramot, in the city's north. One of the blasts immediately killed Aryeh Schupak, 15, a dual Israeli-Canadian national who was heading to a Jewish seminary when the blast went off.
The blasts wounded about 18 Israelis, three of them seriously.
While Palestinians have carried out stabbings, car rammings and shootings in recent years, bombing attacks have been very rare since the end of a Palestinian uprising nearly two decades ago. No Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem explosions.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been surging for months, amid nightly Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis that killed 19 people in the spring.
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