Israeli police crime scene investigators work on the scene of a taking pictures assault that wounded a number of Israelis close to the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem, early Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
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Israeli police crime scene investigators work on the scene of a taking pictures assault that wounded a number of Israelis close to the Outdated Metropolis of Jerusalem, early Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022.
Maya Alleruzzo/AP
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian gunman opened hearth at a bus close to Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in an assault that got here per week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics stated.
Two of the victims have been in severe situation, together with a pregnant lady with belly accidents and a person with gunshot wounds to the top and neck, in accordance with Israeli hospitals treating them.
The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, tweeted that there have been Americans among the many wounded. An embassy spokesperson disclosed no different info or particulars.
The taking pictures occurred because the bus waited in a parking zone close to the Western Wall, the holiest web site the place Jews can pray. Israeli media recognized the suspected attacker as a 26-year-old Palestinian from east Jerusalem.
Israeli police stated forces have been dispatched to the scene to analyze. Israeli safety forces additionally pushed into the close by Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan pursuing the suspected attacker.
In a while Sunday, police stated the suspected attacker turned himself in. Talking at a gathering of his Cupboard Sunday, Israeli Prime Mnister Yair Lapid stated the suspected attacker was a resident of Jerusalem who was working alone in the course of the taking pictures and who had beforehand been arrested by Israel.
The assault in Jerusalem adopted a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Financial institution.
Final weekend, Israeli plane unleashed an offensive within the Gaza Strip focusing on the militant group Islamic Jihad and setting off three days of fierce cross-border preventing. Islamic Jihad fired tons of of rockets in the course of the flare-up to avenge the airstrikes, which killed two of its commanders and different militants. Israel stated the assault was meant to thwart threats from the group to answer the arrest of one in all its officers within the occupied West Financial institution.
Forty-nine Palestinians, together with 17 youngsters and 14 militants, have been killed, and a number of other hundred have been injured within the preventing, which ended with an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire. No Israeli was killed or significantly injured.
The Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, stayed on the sidelines.
A day after the cease-fire halted the worst spherical of Gaza preventing in additional than a 12 months, Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted throughout an arrest raid within the West Financial institution metropolis of Nablus.