Seven injured, two seriously, in Jerusalem bus attack
Steph Deschamps / August 14, 2022
Seven people were wounded, two of them seriously, in an armed attack on a bus early Sunday in central Jerusalem, Israeli police and rescue workers said.
Police were informed of a shooting at a bus near the Tomb of David (...) police have cordoned off the area and are looking for a suspect who fled, police said.
An AFP reporter saw a heavy police deployment in front of the site, located near the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem's Old City.
The Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, said it intervened after receiving reports of gunfire against a bus in Jerusalem.
There are a total of seven injured, all conscious, one woman and six men, two of whom are in serious condition, in the terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, said Zaki Heller, MDA spokesman.
We arrived quickly at the scene. On Ma'ale Hashalom Street (...) passers-by called out to us to treat two men aged around 30 who were injured in the bus. They were conscious and walking with upper body injuries, said two MDA rescuers in a testimony relayed by the organization.
By the spring, 19 people -- mostly Israeli civilians inside Israel -- had been killed, mostly in attacks by Palestinians. Three Israeli Arab attackers were also killed.
In the aftermath, Israeli authorities increased operations in the occupied West Bank. More than 50 Palestinians were killed, including fighters and civilians, in operations and incidents in the West Bank.
Last week, the Israeli army carried out a preventive operation against the Islamic Jihad, an armed Islamist movement, in the Gaza Strip, which retaliated with rocket attacks against Israel.
At least 49 Palestinians, including Islamic Jihad fighters but also children, died in this weekend of military escalation that ended last Sunday with a truce facilitated by the mediation of Egypt.