Israeli forces carry out occupied West Bank raids in response to Jerusalem attack
Israeli officials have completely closed off the area where the attack occurred, and security forces have now begun raiding areas that the attackers could be from.
Security officials say both the attackers were from the occupied West Bank, from areas just west of occupied East Jerusalem.
They’re trying to figure out how they were able to come through the security barrier to begin with because Palestinians from the occupied West Bank are not allowed in Jerusalem without authorisation.
You have officials at the scene. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was supposed to be in a different area of the city, testifying in his longstanding corruption trial, but that has now been cancelled.
We understand from a statement from his office, Netanyahu will be holding a situational and security assessment with his top security and intelligence chiefs to try to figure out exactly what happened.
Jerusalem attack kills six people and wounds pregnant woman, foreign minister says
The bus stop shooting in East Jerusalem has killed six people and injured several, including a pregnant woman, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says during a visit to Budapest.
Saar spoke via a translator at a joint briefing with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. The Hadassah Medical Center has also reported the death of a sixth person in the shooting. Israel’s ambulance service had said earlier that five people had died.
Netanyahu offers ‘condolences’ to Jerusalem shooting victims, families as he visits site of attack
The Israeli prime minister has offered his condolences to the victims of the shooting in East Jerusalem and their families as he visited the site of the attack and says Israeli forces are raiding villages in the occupied West Bank that the perpetrators came from.
“We are in an intense war against terror on several fronts. I want to send condolences to the families of the dead and to the wounded,” Netanyahu said.
“A pursuit and encirclement of the villages from which the terrorists came is under way. One of the people who killed the terrorist was an ultra-Orthodox soldier from the Hashmonaim Battalion.”
Netanyahu also criticised the Supreme Court after it ruled that Palestinian prisoners held by Israel were being denied sufficient food. “As for the court – you are also part of the war. We do not make it easy on our enemies. We will beat them head on, and that is how you should act too,” he said.
