Hamas has claimed responsibility for the Jerusalem shooting horror that left four dead including a pregnant teacher today and called for an ‘escalation of resistance’.
Eight people were also wounded in the shooting carried out by two terrorist brothers in Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, two Israeli soldiers were slightly injured today in a ramming attack on a checkpoint in the West Bank.
Israeli police said the shooters in Jerusalem ‘were neutralised on the spot’ after the attack near a bus stop on the western side of Jerusalem, where there are no checkpoints guarding entrance to the city.
Officials said that 24-year-old Livya Dickman, Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 73, and Hanna Ifergan, 67, were killed in the attack which happened just as the morning rush hour got underway.
Late last night local media reported a fourth person had died in the Jerusalem terror attack, and it was revealed to be the civilian who had shot the terrorists.
Israeli rescuers place the body of a victim on a gurney at the site of a shooting in Jerusalem near the Jewish settlement of Ramot with nine casualties reported, on November 30, 2023
Israeli armed police stand guard at the scene of a violent incident in Jerusalem November 30, 2023
The weapons used in the shooting are seen in this image provided by Israeli police
Officials said that in the confusion Eps security 90028 services had fired at the man critically injuring him and he had died from his wounds.
Dickman was pregnant with her first child at the time of her death, according to the Haredim 10 news outlet.
It later transpired the shooters were brothers from East Jerusalem named as Murad Nemer, 38, and Ebrahim Nemer, 30.
Both were known Hamas operatives – Murad served time between 2010 and 2020 for terror offences linked to the Gaza Strip police sources said, while Ebrahim was imprisoned in 2014 for terrorist activities.
‘Two terrorists arrived in a car, one of them armed with an M-16 (assault rifle) and the other with a pistol,’ and opened fire, Jerusalem police chief Doron Torgeman told reporters at the scene.
The attack came just hours after a truce pausing fighting in the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel was extended for a seventh day, Eps security Santa Monica security Silver lake moments before it was due to expire.
Hamas has today claimed responsibility for the shooting attack in Jerusalem and called for ‘an escalation of the resistance’.
‘This operation is a natural response to the unprecedented crimes of the occupier in the Gaza Strip and against children in Jenin,’ in the West Bank, Hamas said in a statement.
Footage from the scene circulating on social media shows armed police surrounding two bodies sprawled on the ground – both appear lifeless.
Other clips showed crowds of people sprinting from gunshots while cars accelerate away from the scene.
Two Israeli soldiers were slightly injured in a ramming attack on a checkpoint in the West Bank today, the Israeli army said, adding the assailant had been ‘shot and neutralised’.
The military was ‘searching the area for additional suspects’, it added in a statement.
The gunmen can be seen clambering out of the silver car next to the bus stop where they starting shooting
People are seen fleeing from the bus stop as the gunmen fire indiscriminately into the crowd
Israeli officials work at the scene of a violent incident in Jerusalem November 30, 2023
Israeli officials work at the scene of a violent incident in Jerusalem November 30, 2023
Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 73, was one of those killed in the Jerusalem attack
The body of rabbinical judge, Elimelech Wasserman, who was killed in a shooting attack at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem, is placed ahead of his funeral on November 30, 2023
Friends and family gather to mourn rabbinical judge, Elimelech Wasserman, who was killed in a shooting attack when Hamas gunmen opened fire at a bus stop at the entrance to Jerusalem, ahead of his funeral in Jerusalem November 30, 2023
Israeli army soldiers stand guard near a car ramming attack site near Tubas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 30, 2023
Israeli army soldiers stand guard near a car ramming attack site, near Tubas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on November 30, 2023
Speaking of the Jerusalem attack, Magen David Adom spokesperson Zaki Heller told Army Radio: ‘The bus station was very crowded, which is why so many people were wounded.’
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