Hamas claims responsibility for shooting attack in Israel which killed 7, injured 16

Israel Police, successful a connection connected Wednesday said, 2 equipped men entered a railcar which had stopped and started firing astatine the passengers. The accused past started rallying towards Jerusalem Boulevard successful the city’s engaged Jaffa vicinity and “hitting passersby until they were neutralized” by the section constabulary and citizens who utilized their “personal pistol”.

Police officers enactment astatine the tract of a shooting attack, successful Jaffa, Israel, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

The 2 suspects were named Muhammad Masek, 19, who died astatine the country aft authorities backfired and Ahmed Himoni, 25, who was earnestly hurt. Police said that the suspects were equipped with “M16 weapons, cartridges and a knife” and they were residents of Hebron.

Yousef Kourdi, an exigency aesculapian technician with Israel’s exigency work said, “I noticed respective victims adjacent the bid tracks suffering from gunshot wounds. I instantly began providing aesculapian treatment, and astatine the aforesaid time, passersby pointed retired further victims astatine a adjacent kiosk,” according to a Washington Post report.

The onslaught successful Tel Aviv took spot conscionable up of ballistic rocket bombardment by Iran which shook the state arsenic much than 200 missiles were fired by Tehran toward Israel and exigency sirens went disconnected crossed the federation with residents fleeing to harmless zones.