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A gunman opened fire on a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding 8 Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that took place a week after violence between Israel and activists broke out in Gaza, police and the doctors.
Two of the patients were in serious condition, plus a pregnant woman with stomach wounds and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to the Israeli hospitals that treated them.
The shooting happened while the bus was waiting in a parking lot near the Western Wall, considered the holiest place where Jews can pray.
Israeli police said forces were sent to the scene to investigate. Israeli security forces entered the nearby Palestinian community of Silwan to pursue the alleged attacker.
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The one in Jerusalem follows a tense week between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Last weekend, Israeli jets launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip against the islamic jihad militant organization and unleashed 3 days of intense cross-border fighting. Militants. Israel said the attack was aimed at thwarting the organization’s threats to respond to the arrest of one of its officials in the occupied West Bank.
Forty-nine Palestinians, as well as 17 youths and 14 militants, were killed and several hundred wounded in the fighting, which ended in an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. No Israelis were killed or seriously injured.
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The Islamic militant Hamas, which controls Gaza, remained on the sidelines.
A day after the ceasefire ended the worst fighting in Gaza in more than a year, Israeli troops killed 3 Palestinian militants and wounded dozens in a shootout that erupted in an arrest raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Two U. S. Navy warships. The U. S. navy crossed the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, the first such operation since China’s unprecedented military training on Taiwan, which was carried out in reaction to the scale of the U. S. House of Representatives Speaker. U. S. Secretary of State Nancy Pelosi on the autonomous island earlier this month. Two missile destroyers: USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville, of the U. S. Navy. The U. S. Navy was in transit through the Taiwan Strait, making a regime transit, the U. S. Seventh Fleet said. UU. on a Sunday.
Prolonged power cuts in the Gaza Strip have melted ice cream stocks, forcing department stores to avoid promoting ice cream just as a heat wave boosted demand. With summer temperatures reaching 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), ice cream is a popular and affordable treat in Gaza, home to another 2. 3 million people trapped in a narrow coastal strip between Israel and Egypt.
The team of former British chancellor and prime minister candidate Rishi Sunak believes his references to California’s Silicon Valley at the start of the crusade to succeed Boris Johnson as British prime minister could have influenced his chances in the Conservative Party. leadership career. ” I think it’s incredibly inspiring and challenging. If I was a young person, I would have to go through and do something like that,” he replied.
Hong Kong on Sunday reported a total of 9,708 new Covid-19 infections, the highest count in five months. There have been 10 new Covid patients in critical condition and 10 new virus-like deaths. Also read: Covid-19: The number of active instances in India falls below 90,000; 9,520 cases today The number of infections is expected to reach 10,000, health ministry fitness arm Chuang Shuk-kwan said.
Clashes between supporters of Lithrougha’s rival governments have left at least 32 other people dead, the Health Ministry said Sunday in a new assessment, after a war that has raised fears of a new primary conflict. Armed teams exchanged chimneys that destroyed several hospitals and destroyed buildings in the chimney since Friday night, but a cautious calm had set in until Saturday night.
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