At least six people were killed and over a dozen more injured on Monday morning in Jerusalem when a group of Hamas-backed Palestinian terrorists opened fire at commuters at a busy bus stop.
“Six people were killed in a shooting attack in Ramot Junction in Jerusalem on Monday after Israeli emergency medical services had received initial reports of at least 15 injured,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “Two more people remain seriously injured, 4 moderately injured, and 24 panic victims, and are currently receiving treatment at Jerusalem hospitals.”
An IDF soldier and an armed civilian present at the scene neutralized the attackers. “An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers, said police, who later arrested a third person in connection with the shooting,” the Associated Press reported.
The three terrorists came from nearby “Palestinian villages of Qatanna and Qubeib” and had “entered through a breach in the border fence,” the Israeli media outlet Ynetnews disclosed, citing preliminary investigations.
Iran-sponsored Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror groups applauded the murder of innocent Israelis in Jerusalem. According to Reuters, “Palestinian militant group Hamas praised two Palestinian “resistance fighters” who it said had carried out the attack and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group, also praised the shooting.”
The victims of the terrorist attack include a 60-year-old woman, two Rabbis, and a newlywed immigrant from Spain. Ynetnews published their details:
Six people were killed in a shooting attack at Ramot Junction on Monday morning, authorities said. The victims were Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Pash, Yaakov Pinto, Yisrael Metzner, Rabbi Yosef David, Rabbi Mordechai Steinzag and Sarah (Sarita) Mendelson.(…)Yaakov Pinto, 25, an immigrant from Spain, had recently married and studied at the Derech Emunah Yeshiva in Lod. Members of his community in Ramot said his “future was cruelly cut short. Our hearts are with his young wife, his family and his community in these difficult moments.”Levi Yitzchak Pash, a staff member at the Kol Torah Yeshiva, lived in Tel Tzion near Jerusalem. Neighbors described him as “a dedicated yeshiva worker, known for helping everyone in the neighborhood and performing acts of kindness.”Yisrael Metzner, 28, was a resident of Jerusalem.Rabbi Yosef David, 43, lived in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Local residents said he was killed while standing at a bus stop on his way to study at a kollel, with his books in hand.Rabbi Mordechai Steinzag, 57, who immigrated to Israel from Pennsylvania in 1993, was the owner of the famous Beit Shemesh bakery Dr. Mark, which specialized in healthy alternatives for bread.Sarah (Sarita) Mendelson, 60, was a resident of Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.
Israel was in a multi-front war against terrorism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said while visiting the scene of the terror attack. “We are at war, an intense war against terrorism on several fronts,” he told reporters.
The Israeli prime minister’s office released the excerpts of his remarks:
“We are at war, an intense war against terrorism on several fronts.First, I would like to send condolences to the families of those who were murdered and, of course, best wishes for a quick recovery to those who were wounded.When I say that we are in an intense war on several fronts, we have had – of course – major successes against the terrorist regimes and terrorist organizations. However, the war is continuing – both in the Gaza Strip, where we will destroy Hamas as we have promised and release our hostages, all of our hostages, and – unfortunately – in Jerusalem as well.https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1965002838209437999
The Hamas-backed terror attack comes a day after President Donald Trump issued a ‘last warning’ to the Gaza-based terrorist group, urging it to free all of the remaining hostages.
Country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the deadly attack will have ‘far-reaching consequences,’ in an apparent reference to the ongoing military operation against Hamas in Gaza.
The Times of Israel reported:
Defense Minister Israel Katz says that today’s “heinous” terror shooting in Jerusalem will have “severe and far-reaching consequences.”“Just as we defeated Palestinian terrorism in northern Samaria — we will soon do the same in other terror camps,” he says, using the biblical name for the northern West Bank, where the IDF has conducted intense operations over the past year.
With Hamas refusing to accept U.S. and Israel hostage proposals, the IDF has launched a ground offensive to capture the Hamas-stronghold of Gaza City, where the majority of the hostages and most of the combat-ready terrorist forces are believed to be located.
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