Terrorist Rams Car Into Jerusalem Bus Stop, Kills 6-Year-Old

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Two people, including a child, were killed and many others injured after a driver rammed his vehicle into a group at a bus stop near Jerusalem on Friday. Israeli emergency services reported that the driver was a driver.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described it as a terrorist attack. He ordered reinforcement of security forces.

Ariel Ben-David was a volunteer medic for United Hatzalah’s ambulance service. He spoke to Army Radio: “Everyone was lying out, thrown about, in very bad condition. To our regret, one child did not survive.”

Police claimed that the driver was drunk. “neutralized” However, it wasn’t immediately confirmed that the attacker had been killed. One man who claimed he saw the attack from his vehicle told Israel’s Channel 12 that an armed civilian had shot him before a police officer arrived. He also shot into the car.

The incident occurred in a time of tension following an attack in the synagogue by a single Palestinian gunman last month.

Itamar Bengvir, Hardline Security Minister, was on the scene.

Social media footage showed a car in blue that crashed into a pole at the Ramot area bus stop. This is a region of Jerusalem annexed to Israel by Israel in 1967 Middle Eastern war.

In the occupied West Bank, which has seen bloody clashes with Palestinian militants, Israeli forces have conducted hundreds of arrests. This year, more than 35 Palestinians have been killed, including civilians and gunmen.

Hamas’s spokesman, an Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, said the attack was a praiseworthy one. “heroic operation” But he didn’t claim responsibility.

(Reporting by Maayan Lulbell, Dan williams; writing by James Mackenzie; editing by Philippa Fletcher, Nick Macfie).