Israeli Killed, Eight Wounded in Terror Shooting in Jerusalem

Jerusalem, 30 November, 2023 (TPS) -- A 24-year-old Israeli woman was killed and eight other people were wounded on Thursday morning in a Palestinian shooting at a bus stop on Weizman Street at the entrance to Jerusalem.

Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel were treating the victims, including at least one person in critical condition, at the scene.

Israeli media reported that security forces had neutralized two terrorists and were sweeping the area for additional suspects.

On Nov. 16, Hamas terrorists shot and killed an IDF soldier and wounded five other members of the security forces near the “tunnel road” checkpoint between Gush Etzion and Jerusalem.

Three Palestinian gunmen arrived at the crossing by car and opened fire on Israeli forces, who returned fire, killing the terrorists.

The terrorists were part of a Hamas cell and planned to perpetrate a much larger attack in Jerusalem.

The soldier was identified as 20-year-old Cpl. Avraham Fetena from Haifa.

Earlier this month, an Israeli-American Border Police officer was killed in a terror attack near the Herod’s Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City. Another officer was moderately wounded.

The slain officer was named as Sgt. Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, 20, from Kibbutz Sa’ad near the Gaza Strip. She immigrated from Atlanta in the United States in August 2021 and was drafted into the police in March of the following year.

Late last month, an Israeli policeman was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack near the Shivtei Yisrael light rail stop in Jerusalem.

On Oct. 12, two police officers were injured in a terrorist shooting just outside Jerusalem’s Old City.

Thursday’s attack comes amid a ceasefire in the war sparked by Hamas’s Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state, in which terrorists killed 1,200 people, wounded thousands more and took some 240 captives to the Gaza Strip.