Shots were fired at a bus and a parking lot in Jerusalem. The alleged shooter was arrested.
At least eight people were wounded in gunfire near Jerusalem’s Western Wall, three of them seriously. The shots were fired in two different places, rescue service Magen David Adom said Sunday night on Twitter. The suspect initially managed to escape, Israeli media reported. According to the Jerusalem Post, the man has since been arrested and the murder weapon has been stowed away.
The shots were aimed at a bus in the old town and at a parking lot near David’s grave. According to a paramedic, the bus was transporting Western Wall believers into the city. “According to a passerby, a terrorist randomly started shooting at the bus,” the paramedic told the Jerusalem Post. When emergency services arrived at the scene of the incident, there was a huge commotion. People ran in panic. According to the information, one of the wounds was pregnant, the baby had to be taken away with an emergency cesarean section and was also seriously injured.
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Israeli Prime Minister Jair Lapid said: “Security forces are working to capture the terrorist and will not rest until he is caught.” He said there would be a price to pay for harming civilians.
A spokesman for the Palestinian organization Hamas, the Palestinian organization ruling the Gaza Strip, called the attack a “natural reaction to the arrogance of occupying soldiers and Zionist settlers and their daily crimes against our people, our country and our Islamic saints and Christians”. locals.” He spoke of Israel’s continued incursion into the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Temple Mount (Al-Haram al-Sharif) with the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam. But it is also sacred to Jews because there used to be two Jewish temples there. The Temple Mount is under Muslim administration, while Israel is responsible for security. There is always tension between the two sides. Israel conquered the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War. The Palestinians demand the area as part of a future state of their own.
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