Jerusalem Shooting: At least four people were killed and 15 others were injured in a shooting attack on the outskirts of Jerusalem, with the Israeli police attributing it to a terror attack. The Israeli cops
further said that the perpetrators had been neutralised.
The shooting incident took place in Ramot Junction on Yigal Yadin Street in Jerusalem. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that terrorists in Jerusalem apparently boarded a bus and opened fire on passengers. Five people are reported to be in a critical condition, while others received serious injuries.
Emergency service and medical teams “pronounced the deaths of four victims, including a man about 50 years old and three men aged around 30”, AFP quoted a statement from Magen David Adom.
Video footage of the attack captured dozens of people running from a bus stop at a busy intersection during the morning rush hour. Paramedics arriving at the scene described a chaotic situation, with shattered glass scattered across the area and several injured individuals lying unconscious on the road and sidewalk near the bus stop.
“At 10:13 am (0713 GMT), reports were received… about approximately 15 injured, apparently from gunfire, at the Ramot Junction on Yigal Yadin Street in Jerusalem,” it said in a earlier statement.
Paramedics and ambulance crews provided medical treatment and evacuating five “seriously wounded people” who had been sent to hospitals in Jerusalem. “Several other victims, with varying degrees of injury, are also being treated at the scene,” it added.
The terrorists who carried out the deadly terror shooting attack at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem used a makeshift “Carlo” submachine gun, otherwise called Carl Gustav, according to The Times of Israel. The gun has been used in numerous Palestinian attacks in the past.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the shooting or what the motive was. However, the attack came immediately after Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, gave a final warning to Hamas to either drop arms and release all hostages or face “annihilation”.
The warnings came as the Israeli military intensified its bombings and operations around Gaza City, which it has vowed to capture in a bid to finally defeat Hamas after nearly two years of devastating conflict.
Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 64,368 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Gaza.
(with inputs from agencies)
