Jerusalem ? The Palestinian who went on a deadly rampage on a Jerusalem street this week had spent years in a romantic relationship with a Jewish Israeli woman, relatives said, a rarity in a city where such ties between Arabs and Jews are nearly nonexistent.

In an interview with an Israeli paper Friday, the woman, identified only as “S,” said the attacker, Hussam Dwayat, fathered her child, now 7 years old.

Dwayat, 30, crushed three people to death and wounded dozens on one of Jerusalem’s busiest thoroughfares Wednesday with the massive earth moving vehicle he used in his job at a nearby construction site.

He smashed through traffic, drove over cars and flipped a crowded city bus on its side.

The former girlfriend said she did not believe his attack was motivated by extremism.

“He really didn’t hate Jews. The fact is that he was with me. It’s insanity, but the motivation was not nationalist,” she told Yediot. “The problem was that he smoked a lot of drugs. Maybe it’s because of that.”