Conflict in the Middle East: Six deaths when attacked in Jerusalem – two perpetrators shot

At least six people were killed in the attack of two Palestinians in Jerusalem. Five men and a woman died of hospital information and according to paramedics. Around ten other people were injured, including several seriously. According to police, the two assassins were shot by a soldier and armed civilians.

Netanyahu announces “even harder steps”

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held security advice after the attack and visited the location of the attack. Security forces are on the hunt for alleged helpers of the assassin, said Netanyahu. The places from which the perpetrators came would be circled. “We will reach everyone who has helped them and sent them and we will take harder steps,” said the head of government. “We are in the war, in an intensive war against terror on several fronts.”

In the past few months, the Israeli army had been hard against militant Palestinians in numerous raids, especially in the northern part of the occupied West Bank. There were always dead and arrests.

Perpetrators shot at waiting at the bus stop

According to the police, the perpetrators came to an intersection in northern Jerusalem and shot people who were waiting at a bus stop. An eyewitness reported that they had also shot on a bus.

The Israeli President Izchak Herzog said: “This shocking attack is once again reminiscent of the fact that we fight against absolute evil. The world must understand what we are dealing with – and that terror will never defeat us.”

Foreign Minister Johann WadePhul wrote on platform X that he was deeply shocked by “the fig terrorist attack”. French President Emmanuel Macron warned a political solution to the Middle East conflict. “The violent spiral must end,” he wrote on X.

Paramedics: Several injuries on the ground

“When I arrived at the scene, I saw several firing injuries lying on the ground, some of them were passed out,” said a paramedic. “I provided medical help for a 45-year-old man about 45-year-old.” The man hit by shots was conscious and taken to the hospital.

The traffic was stopped after the attack on existing military barriers near Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank, which lie between Jerusalem and Ramallah. There was a raid on the army in Kalandia.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said during a visit to Hungary that the assassins came from the area under the control of the Palestinian Authority. This once again prove that a Palestinian state “has only one goal, the wreath of the state of Israel”. He accused the autonomy authority that she supports terror and “did not deserve a state”. The initiative initiated by France to recognize a state of Palestine is a “mistake” because it separates the topic of independent statehood from a peace conclusion with Israel, said Saar.

Israel’s Minister of Defense threatens Hamas with “hurricane”

The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz meanwhile expressed a sharp warning to the Islamist terrorist organization of Hamas in front of an announced deeper push of the army into the city of Gaza. “Today a huge hurricane will break over the sky of the city of Gaza and the roofs of the terroric high-rise buildings will shake,” wrote Katz in a post on the platform X.

“This is the last warning to the murderers and rapists of Hamas in Gaza and in the luxury hotels abroad: let the hostages free and lay down the weapons – or Gaza is destroyed and you will be destroyed,” wrote Katz.

Trump’s “last warning” to Hamas

Previously, US President Donald Trump had already pronounced a “last warning” to Hamas in order to force a diplomatic solution to the inside of the city of Gaza before Israel’s expected. Israel accepted his conditions that it was time that Hamas also accepted it, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The Hamas was then ready for “immediate negotiations”. One greets “every step that contributes to ending aggression against our people”.

According to information from the Israeli broadcaster Channel 12, the proposal provides for the handover of all 48 hostages – both the living and the dead – on the first day of the entry into force of a ceasefire. In return, Israel’s army would hire her offensive in the city of Gaza. Furthermore, Israel is to relieve thousands of Palestinian prisoners from his prisons, including hundreds who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Israelis.

Warnings of tightening the situation in Gaza

According to the latest estimates, around one million people stayed in the city of Gaza, many of which had fled from other parts of the Gaza Strip. Israel has called for civilians in the city on the Mediterranean to go south. According to Netanyahus, around 100,000 Palestinians have left the city of Gaza. Aid organizations warn of further tightening the already catastrophic situation of the civilian population. Israel emphasizes that it only fights against Hamas and wants to protect civilians.