Israeli authorities increased operations in the occupied West Bank. More than 50 Palestinians have been killed, including fighters and civilians, in operations and incidents in the West Bank since then.
Suspected terrorist waited for bus to stop outside Jerusalem Old City, opened fire in 2 scenes and fled; manhunt underway; 'I jumped inside the bus and lay low,' says passenger
Seven people were wounded, two of them critically, after a shooter opened fire on a bus in Jerusalem's Old City early Sunday, Israeli police and medics said.Israel's emergency medical services, the Magen David Adom (MDA), called the incident a "terror attack in the Old City".An AFP reporter noted heightened security around the scene, not far from Jerusalem's Western Wall, Jews' holiest prayer site.Police have launched a search for the shooter, who fled after the pre-dawn attack.
Israeli police Sunday arrested a suspect in a pre-dawn shooting spree targeting a bus just outside Jerusalem's Old City that wounded eight people, including a pregnant woman and several US citizens."The terrorist is in our hands," police spokesman Kan Eli Levy told Israeli public radio hours after the bloody attack not far from the Western Wall, the holiest prayer site for Jews.
Amir Sidawi, 26-year-old East Jerusalem resident, arrives at police station by cab with gun supposedly used to carry out attack and knife, and handed over to Shin Bet; security service to probe whether shooter affiliated with terrorist elements