A Palestinian gunman opened fireplace at a bus close to Jerusalem's Outdated Metropolis early Sunday, wounding eight individuals in an assault that got here every week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics mentioned.
Two of the victims have been in severe situation, together with a pregnant girl with stomach accidents and a person with gunshot wounds to the top and neck, in response to 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 data or particulars.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer mentioned a press convention Sunday that three of the eight individuals wounded within the assault have been Individuals from Brooklyn.
The capturing occurred because the bus waited in a parking zone close to David's Tomb on Mount Zion, simply outdoors the Outdated Metropolis partitions. Israeli media recognized the suspected attacker as a 26-year-old Palestinian from east Jerusalem.
Israeli police mentioned 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.
Afterward Sunday, police mentioned the suspected attacker turned himself in. Talking at a gathering of his Cupboard on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid mentioned the suspected attacker was a resident of Jerusalem who was working alone throughout the capturing 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 combating. Islamic Jihad fired tons of of rockets throughout the flare-up to avenge the airstrikes, which killed two of its commanders and different militants. Israel mentioned the assault was meant to thwart threats from the group to reply to the arrest of one in all its officers within the occupied West Financial institution.
Forty-nine Palestinians, together with 17 kids and 14 militants, have been killed, and a number of other hundred have been injured within the combating, which ended with an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire. No Israeli was killed or severely 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 combating in additional than a yr, 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.