The violence seemed to be waning until, on October 22, Adbel-Rahman Shaloudi, a twenty-one-year-old Hamas operative from Silwan, rammed his car into a group of passengers waiting at the Ammunition Hill light rail station. The attack left two dead, including a three-month-old baby, and seven injured. A brief uptick in Arab rioting followed. A week later, prominent right-wing activist Yehuda Glick, described as an Israeli-American agitator, was shot point blank and critically wounded minutes after his speech at a conference titled Israel returns to the Temple Mount. The suspected attacker, Muataz Hijazi, was killed within hours as Israeli security forces raided his Abu Tor home. The failed assassination attempt prompted Israeli officials to bar access to the Temple Mount — a 14-year first — after security assessments were made. Thereafter, a minimum age of 50 years for men stayed in place into November. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the closure a declaration of war.