A gunman opens fire inside a bus in Jerusalem’s Old City, wounding eight people, two of them critically. Israeli police later raid the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan and arrest a suspect.
A gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in a suspected Palestinian attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said. Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them. Israeli police arrest suspected gunman after a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem’s Old City wounded at least eight people. The attack took place in the early hours of Sunday, as the bus carrying Israelis waited in a parking lot near the Western Wall, a holy prayer site for Jews.