Israeli police announced on Thursday that they had “neutralized” three attackers after a “shootout” near a security checkpoint linking Jerusalem to the occupied West Bank, with Israeli emergency services reporting “four gunshot wounds,” including “one in critical condition.” Condition”.
An AFP journalist at the scene heard heavy gunfire from automatic weapons at this checkpoint.
Israeli emergency services reported in a press release “four gunshot wounds, including a man aged about 20 in very serious condition.” Two other people were slightly injured. All of the injured were members of the security service.
For their part, the Israeli police assure that “three terrorists who arrived by car from the West Bank shot at the security forces” before they were “neutralized.”
This attack comes on the 41st day of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which is in power in the Gaza Strip.
This conflict was triggered by an attack of unprecedented magnitude by Hamas in Israel, which, according to the Israeli authorities, killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. In response, the Israeli army is bombing the Gaza Strip relentlessly. According to the Hamas Health Ministry, the attacks claimed 11,500 lives, mostly civilians.
In the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, more than 190 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The Israeli army is stepping up raids and incursions in response to a “significant increase in terrorist attacks” in the West Bank, with “more than 550 attempted attacks since the start of the war.”