Three people were killed and six injured, three of them seriously, in a gun attack carried out by two Palestinians this Thursday at a bus stop in west Jerusalem, according to a new report released by the Israeli police.
The attack, carried out according to the police by “two residents of East Jerusalem”, occupied and annexed by Israel, occurred shortly after it was announced a new one-day extension of the truce between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas in the Gaza Stripwho for the seventh day are going to proceed with an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
“Two terrorists in a car, one armed with an M-16 and the other with a pistol,” opened fire at around 7:40 a.m. (05:40 GMT), Jerusalem police chief Doron Torgeman told reporters. at the scene of the attack.
Magen David Adom (Mada), the Israeli service equivalent to the Red Cross, identified one of the three dead as “a 24-year-old girl.”
The two attackers “were quickly killed by two off-duty soldiers and a civilian who shot them,” the police said in a statement.
Images posted online show two men getting out of a white vehicle and opening fire before being shot dead.
Mada initially located the attack in East Jerusalem, occupied and annexed by Israel, before specifying that it took place “at the entrance to West Jerusalem.”
The previous toll was two dead and eight injured.
Fifteen days ago, an Israeli soldier was killed and five members of the Israeli security forces were injured in an attack at a roadblock separating Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, an attack claimed by the Ezzedine al Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.
The three attackers were killed.
Source: Ambito
