NETANYAHU VISITS SCENE OF TERROR SHOOTING – Two terrorists opened fire on civilians at Ramot Junction, killing five people and wounding at least 11
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at the scene of a deadly terror shooting in northern Jerusalem.
He surveyed the area after two terrorists opened fire on civilians at Ramot Junction, killing five people and wounding at least 11.
Covered bodies were taken away on stretchers at the scene of a shooting. Palestinian militant group Hamas praised two Palestinian “resistance fighters” who it said had carried out the attack but it stopped short of claiming responsibility.
The ambulance service identified the five victims as a 50-year-old man, a woman in her fifties and three men in their thirties. It said 11 other people had suffered injuries, including six who were in a serious condition with gunshot wounds.
Israeli police said two attackers arrived by car and opened fire at a bus stop at Ramot Junction. They said a security officer and a civilian shot and killed the assailants. Several weapons, ammunition and a knife used by the attackers, who police only identified as “terrorists,” were recovered at the scene, police said.
Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group, also praised the shooting but did not claim responsibility for it.
