Seven people were injured, two seriously, as a result of an attack from firearms against the bus early in the morning in the center of it JerusalemThis was reported to the police and emergency services.

“The police received a report of shots fired at a bus near Tomb of David (…). The police cordoned off the scene and are looking for the suspect, who fled,” the Israeli police said.

An AFP journalist found that a strong police force had been deployed at the site near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

OUR Magen David Adom (Red Star of David, the Israeli emergency service equivalent to the Red Cross) reported seven injured, two seriously.

“In total, as a result of the terrorist attack in the Old City of Jerusalem, seven were injured, all conscious, one woman and six men, two of whom are in serious condition,” the report says. Zaki Hellerhis representative Magen David Adom.

“We arrived at the site very quickly. On the street Maale Hasalom (…) they called us as we passed by to offer help to two men in their 30s who were injured on the bus. They were conscious and able to walk,” but suffered “upper body injuries,” two Magen David Adom paramedics said, according to the aid and care organization.

“The whole world is in panic”

“I was returning from the Wall of Tears. The bus was full of passengers. I stopped at the bus stop at David’s grave. At that moment, shooting began,” the bus driver said. Daniel Kanevskya group of journalists.

“I saw two bleeding people on the bus. The whole world panicked,” he added in front of his bullet-riddled bus.

in the spring, 19 people – mostly Israeli citizens inside Israel – were killed, mostly as a result of Palestinian attacks. Three Israeli Arab attackers were also killed.

In response, the Israeli authorities stepped up military operations in the occupied West Bank. More than fifty Palestinians, members of armed organizations and civilians have been killed in these operations.

Last week, the Israeli military launched a “preventive operation” against him. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an armed Islamist group in the Gaza Strip. The group responded by firing rockets at Israel.

Least 49 PalestiniansPalestinian Islamic Jihad fighters, as well as many children, were killed over the weekend in this escalation, which, however, ended last Sunday following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.