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 Jerusalem shooting: eight wounded as gunman, fires at bus near Western Wall

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TSNamelessone1973
post Aug 14 2022, 08:22 PM, updated 4y ago

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A gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early on Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said.

Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them.
The shooting occurred as the bus waited in a parking lot near the Western Wall, which is considered the holiest site where Jews can pray.

Israeli security forces pushed into the nearby Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan pursuing the suspected attacker.
Later on Sunday, police said the suspected attacker turned himself in, without immediately disclosing details about the person’s identity.

The Jerusalem shooting followed a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Last weekend, Israeli aircraft carried out an offensive in the Gaza Strip targeting the militant group Islamic Jihad and setting off three days of fierce cross-border fighting.

Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets during the flare-up to avenge the airstrikes, which killed two of its commanders and other militants.

Israel said the attack was meant to thwart threats from the group to respond to the arrest of one of its officials in the occupied West Bank.

Forty-nine Palestinians, including 17 children and 14 militants, were killed and several hundred injured in the fighting, which ended with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. No Israeli was killed or seriously injured.

The Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, stayed on the sidelines.

A day after the ceasefire halted the worst round of Gaza fighting in more than a year, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted during an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/...ar-western-wall
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post Aug 14 2022, 08:26 PM

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Lancer07
post Aug 15 2022, 06:50 AM

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This kind of terrorist attack won't get much attention.
KLthinker91
post Aug 15 2022, 07:01 AM

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was it a military target?
omong
post Aug 15 2022, 07:05 AM

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Tit for tat

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TSNamelessone1973
post Aug 15 2022, 07:07 AM

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QUOTE(KLthinker91 @ Aug 15 2022, 07:01 AM)
was it a military target?
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Nope, they were targeting civilian bus
KLthinker91
post Aug 15 2022, 07:20 AM

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QUOTE(Namelessone1973 @ Aug 15 2022, 07:07 AM)
Nope, they were targeting civilian bus
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imagine that rolleyes.gif

 

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