The Islamist group Hamas on Thursday took responsibility for the morning attack on two Palestinians who opened fire on a group of Israelis at a bus stop near one of the entrances to the city of Jerusalem, killing at least three people, according to Israeli authorities .
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in turn, condemned the attack and stressed that his government “will continue to expand arms supplies to civilians.”
“It is a measure that has proven itself time and time again in the fight against murderous terrorism,” he said in a post on his Telegram account after highlighting it. The two attackers were ‘eliminated’ after a shot. attacked by two police officers and an armed citizen standing at the bus stop.
He also expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the attack and reiterated that the authorities will take action against the “terrorists” of the “in” Islamic Resistance Movement. Jerusalem, Ribbon, Judea and Samaria (biblical name for the West Bank, used by the Israeli authorities to speak of this Palestinian territory).” This has been solved “everywhere”.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Gantz spoke of a “difficult future” and stated that these attacks were “further proof of the commitment to this.” Continue the fight with strength and determination against murderous terrorism.”
However, Hamas announced that they were the two aggressors Murad Muhammad Nimr and Ibrahim Muhammad Nimr, who carried out “a martyrdom operation” that resulted in the deaths of three “settlers.” In a statement published on Telegram, the group stressed that “it is a natural response to the unprecedented crimes of the occupation, including the brutal massacre in the Gaza Strip and the murder of children in Jenin.”
Hamas therefore referred to the killing of two children by the Israeli army in a large-scale operation carried out on Wednesday in the West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp. Israel later said two terrorists, including a senior Islamic Jihad, were shot dead in the attack.
Finally, he warned Israel that “the people’s heroes” are “ready to avenge the blood of the martyrs and repel aggression” in “every city, village, street and alley.” They will not stop “until the occupation is razed and eradicated.” “The free Palestinian people will not accept oppression and will not remain silent in the face of the Zionist war of extermination in all parts of the country,” he concluded.
Israeli police said the attack in Jerusalem last year was carried out at the Givat Shaul Crossing, where “two armed terrorists arrived on the scene in a vehicle and opened fire on a group of civilians at a bus stop.”
This event is part of the latest rise in tensions. There has been an increase in violence so far this year, which has increased following Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israeli territory, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 240 people nearby were kidnapped. Authorities in Gaza, controlled by the Palestinian Islamic group, reported 15,000 deaths as a result of the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.
(With information from Europa Press)
Source: La Neta Neta
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