Terror and the pit are come upon us, desolation and destruction. Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water, for the breach of the daughter of my people. (Lamentations 3:47-48)

The IDF shot and killed a Palestinian man who had forced his way on to an army base north of Jerusalem with a tractor on Thursday night, according to The Times of Israel. The IDF is treating the event as an attempted terror attack.

Palestinian officials said the suspect was identified as Younis al-Radeideh. His family reportedly recently received a demolition order for their East Jerusalem home, according to Walla News.

According to reports, in 2009, his brother Marei al-Radeideh, a resident of Bet Hanina, was shot dead in a similar incident in Jerusalem when he drove a tractor into two vehicles, including a police car and an empty bus. He was shot by officers at the scene.
Younis Radeideh is believed by Israeli officials to have acted on his own, Israel Radio reported.

Rama Base is located next to Al-Ram, a Palestinian neighborhood.The IDF upped its readiness in wake of the attack, which came without any prior warning, according to Israel Radio.

Radeideh reportedly drove up to the base in the early evening and asked to enter. While the soldier at the gate clarified whether he had permission to do so, he rammed the tractor into the gate, making his way into the base and hitting an army vehicle in his way.

Two soldiers fired at Radeideh, wounding him. An IDF medical team at the scene pronounced him dead shortly after.

“IDF soldiers felt an immediate threat and opened fire,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Office told the Times of Israel. One soldier was lightly hurt in the commotion.

In December of 2012 two Palestinian terrorists, in the middle of a storm, begged entrance to the Rama Base. After being allowed in they pepper sprayed a soldier and stole his weapon.

In 2008, Jerusalem suffered a spate of terror attacks involving tractors. In July that year, an East Jerusalem resident killed three people, and wounded 30, after he rammed his construction vehicle into buses and cars and trampled pedestrians on Rashi, Jaffa and Sarei Israel streets in the city. He was shot dead at the scene. Three weeks later, another Palestinian man used his tractor to plow into vehicles on King David street in Jerusalem, making his way to Keren Hayesod street, where he was shot and killed by a Border Police officer. Twenty four people were injured in that incident.

In September that same year, another East Jerusalem resident rammed a private vehicle into IDF soldiers and civilians standing near the Old City. Several people were wounded and the driver was shot and killed.