The number of deaths in the terrorist attack in Jerusalemme Nord has risen to six. The Israeli authorities have known the names of the victims. This is the Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Fash, the Maintenance of the Yeshivà Kol Torah in the Ramot district; Yaakov Pinto, residing in Jerusalem of 25 years; Rabbi Israel Menatzer, from Ramot, 28 years old; Rabbi Yosef David, 43 years old, rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, 79 years old, and Sarah Mendelson, 60 years old. The death of four of the victims was declared directly on the site of the attack.
Yaakov Pinto was a new immigrant from Spain and had recently married. Steintzag, emigrated decades ago by the United States in Israel, owned a well -known bakery to Beit Shemesh called “Dr. Mark’s Bakery “and also worked as a cardiologist, according to a obituary widespread by the company. Sarah Mendelson was part of the leadership of Bnei Akiva, the religious Zionist Youth Movement, where he treated relations with the local authorities in the treasury of the movement. He was assassinated while he went to work at the national headquarters of the movement in Jerusalem.
Dynamics
The terrorists went up to a bus of line 62 and opened fire. According to the first information, the two terrorists were hit and killed by a soldier who was on the spot and by a young Haredim armed. Both authors of the attack were resident in the West Bank, but without documents. One of them lived in Kubaiba, located north of Ar Hadar, while the other in the village of Katana, who is located north-west of Jerusalem. Channel 12 reports it, citing the testimony of the police. “A security agent and a civilian who were present on the scene fired to the terrorists, who were neutralized”, explains the police report, which adds that the deputy head, Avasham Peled, arrived on the scene. Police are also operating on the shooting scene, checking the presence of possible explosives.
The Channel 12 Newsletter interviewed the paramedical of the ambulance service that arrived at the place of the attack: «We arrived en masse as soon as we heard the report. Once on the spot we saw people who lay without senses on the sides of the road and on the sidewalk near the bus stop. There is a lot of destruction on the scene, broken glass on the ground and a lot of confusion. We started to provide medical treatment to the injured and continue to take care of them and transport them to the hospital ».
Netanyahu on the attack of the attack
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on the attack on the crossroads at the crossroads in Jerusalem. The Jewish media make it known. The National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also arrived at the crossroads of the Ramot, in the north of Jerusalem, the place of the attack.
The police chief Danny Levy – who is currently located in Germany for an official visit – is not present on the shooting scene. The police are “currently trying to understand how the terrorists have arrived on the scene, who brought them,” said the assistant Commissioner Shlomi Bachar.
The Israeli premier on the scene of the attack in Jerusalem, said: «We are in an intense war against terrorism on several fronts. We have achieved enormous successes against terrorist regimes, but the war continues, both in Gaza and Jerusalem ». Netanyahu recalled the operations carried out by the IDF and the Shin Bet in the West Bank, who foiled hundreds of attacks this year, “but unfortunately not that of this morning”.
Hamas praises the terrorist attack, “heroic operation”
Hamas praised the terrorist attack carried out this morning at the crossroads of the branch in Jerusalem, calling it a “heroic operation”. “We say that this operation is a natural response to the crimes of employment and to the extermination war that is leading against our people,” declares the Palestinian organization. Hamas does not take responsibility for the attack, but invites the Palestinians of the West Bank to “intensify the clash with the employment and his settlers”. The attack was carried out by two Palestinians of the West Bank, who opened fire on civilians on a bus in the north of the city, killing six people and injuring at least a dozen.