“Last night, a terrorist shot at a bus in Jerusalem wounding 8 people, including a pregnant 30-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man who are in critical care. We pray for their full recovery,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced.
According to news reports, the baby was delivered by emergency C-section while the mother is in “serious but stable condition – in a shooting attack targeting a bus near King David’s Tomb near the Western Wall on Saturday night.”
According to the report, four of the injured belonged to the same family and are part of the hasidic Satmar sect and were visiting Israel from Williamsburg, New York.
A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Jerusalem confirmed that US citizens were among the victims of the terrorist attack, but had no further comment on the matter.
Yosef Chaim HaCohen, a paramedic with United Hatzalah who lives near the scene, stated, “I parked the car near the house and heard gunshots and screams. The neighbors ran to me and shouted ‘terror attack.’”
MDA paramedic Shimi Grossman said: “This was a bus that left the Western Wall with worshipers heading toward the city. According to a passerby, a terrorist began to shoot indiscriminately toward the bus. When I arrived there was a great commotion, people ran in panic, MDA teams treated and evacuated a 30-year-old man and a 45-year-old man in serious condition, a 30-year-old woman in serious condition, a young man about 20 years old in moderate condition and 4 injured in mild condition.”
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum praised the attack as a courageous act of resistance
The Islamic terrorist, allegedly a man named Amir Sidawi, has been arrested.
Those wounded in the attack included a 35-year-old pregnant woman who was shot while sitting in a nearby car, Hebrew media reported. Her abdomenal injury was described by doctors as “complex” and her life was said to be in danger. Shaare Zedek hospital said she had undergone an emergency delivery and that the newborn was in serious but stable condition.
The family’s father was said to be in serious condition, sedated and on a respirator, while the mother was in moderate condition.
“It was a very difficult scene, the blood-soaked tzitzit and abandoned baby stroller will remain in my memory for many years,” said Moshe Levy from the United Hatzalah emergency organization, referring to knotted ritual fringes worn by observant Jews.
The alleged perpetrator had reportedly waited for the bus’s arrival and fired the shots while passengers were boarding, then fled on foot to Silwan.
“The bus was full, jam-packed. I stopped at a bus stop at King David’s Tomb and then I heard gunfire, people started yelling, people were hurt inside the bus,” the bus driver, Daniel Kanievsky, said.
The driver said he had wanted to drive away but couldn’t because passengers were helping a wheelchair-bound woman board the bus, with the lowered ramp blocking the door from closing.
So another heroic and “courageous” act of Islamic terrorism.
somehistory says
Life does not matter to mozlums. They are all about taking and murder is a lust they carry in their hearts they have given over to satan.
murderous mozlums, like snakes in the grass, only worse. Snakes attack when they feel endangered. mozlums attack when there is no danger to them….murdering babies, infants, children, new moms and people in wheelchairs who can’t fight back.
Israeli LE should hunt him or them down and make an example of them for the sake of Justice.
ElderlyZionist says
The gunman is in custody. The police must have identified him. The news reports that they threatened his family, which persuade4d him to turn himself in.
So he’ll get a long sentence in an Israeli prison, banging his head and playing chess with the other mujahidin. He’ll be a hero back in the neighborhood. He and his family will be paid their stipend by the Palestinian Authority.
Just another day.
somehistory says
Yes, that is the way they do things. But, that is why I said they need to ‘make an example’ of him. Do real Justice and not that fake thing of giving him groceries, a dirty rug, a bed and the pa giving him and his family money donated by others for the so-called “poor oppressed” mozlums in Israel.
iran hangs Christians and homosexuals and it might make a few news channels, but is quickly forgotten. If Israel did more real Justice to these terrorists, the flak would come, at least at first, but then fewer terrorists would be getting meals and a place to keep on serving their fake ‘god,’ and their family getting paid for it.
ElderlyZionist says
+1
maria says
Yes, Israel should get rid of all the mozlums because 99,99% of mozlums ae murderers, fanatics the worst non-human worse than nazis