Six of the injured were in “serious condition” and received gunshot wounds following the shooting at Ramot Junction, according to Israeli paramedics’ Magen David Adom, in addition to the 12 others who were injured in the attack on Monday morning. Several others were “lightly injured by glass” and treated at the scene, according to Magen David Adom.
The shooting was deemed a “terror attack,” according to Israeli police.
Soon after the shooting broke out, two attackers were “neutralized,” according to police. According to Israeli police, a security officer and a civilian shot and killed the attackers of the attack that claimed the lives of five people in occupied East Jerusalem.
According to the police, the bus station was opened to fire when the perpetrators arrived in a car.
Following an attack that left five people dead in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, Israeli forces have closed all checkpoints, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.
Israeli Army Radio reported that Israeli forces erected a military cordon on four Palestinian villages in the territory’s Qatana, Biddu, Beit Inan, and Beit Duqu governorates and are conducting raids there after police claimed the perpetrators had been from the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military announced that it had expanded its forces in the greater Jerusalem region and was looking for what it called “accomplices” of the shooting’s perpetrators.
According to Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, who is based in Amman, Jordan, Israeli authorities claim that the two attackers are from a region west of occupied East Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank. They claim that the two gunmen both opened fire on the same day that two gunmen boarded a bus, one of whom witnesses claimed was a ticket inspector.
The Green Line actually bleeds into occupied East Jerusalem if you look at the location where it appears on a map, which is located close to the illegal settlement of Ramot, north of West Jerusalem. She continued, “These settlements are deemed illegal by international law, and they constitute structures and buildings that violate Palestinians’ rights and threaten the territorial stability of a future Palestinian state.”
According to Salhut, “Israeli officials are now trying to wrap their heads around how exactly this happened,” adding that they haven’t seen anything like it in a while and that the last time there was a shooting like this in greater Jerusalem occurred in November 2023.
doubts an attack was ordered by Hamas.
In addition, according to Israel Hayom newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed judges that security developments had prevented him from appearing for his scheduled Monday corruption trial.
The shooting’s location has been visited by both Netanyahu and Israel’s far-right Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
According to Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg, the shooting attack was most likely to have taken place in the West Bank rather than Hamas in Gaza.
Goldberg told Al Jazeera that he “seriously” doubted whether Hamas had ordered it when he spoke from Tel Aviv.
Source: Aljazeera
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