Palestinian Killed after Wounding Five Israelis in Gun Attack

Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. (AP)
Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. (AP)
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Palestinian Killed after Wounding Five Israelis in Gun Attack

Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. (AP)
Israeli police inspect the site of a shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, Tuesday, Aug 1, 2023. (AP)

One Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces, Palestinian health officials said, after committing a shooting attack that wounded five Israelis outside a shopping mall in the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

Israeli emergency services said one of the five Israelis was in a serious condition.

"We went into the restaurant where we saw the victim lying fully conscious with gunshot wounds to his upper body," Israeli paramedic Oren Brill said. "We provided him with life-saving treatment and rapidly evacuated him to hospital in a serious condition. Following an initial assessment in the trauma room, he was transferred to the operating room."

Footage circulating on social media, which could not be independently verified by Reuters, shows the shooter motionless on the ground, wearing a bright yellow vest, while blood seeps onto the sidewalk beneath his body.

The Hamas movement, which governs the Gaza Strip, said the attack was a response to Israeli officials ascending to Temple Mount in Jerusalem last week.

The legal status of the religious site, known to Judaism as Temple Mount and in Islam as the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, is a recurring flashpoint in Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Israel's Channel 12 said the shooter was shot by an off-duty officer.

Violence in the West Bank, among territories where the Palestinians seek to establish a state, has worsened over the past 15 months amid stepped-up Israeli raids, Palestinian street attacks and assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinian villages.



Greece Says Doing All it Can to Ensure Respect for Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Greece Says Doing All it Can to Ensure Respect for Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, speaks during a joint press conference with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has stressed that "the international community and Greece are doing their utmost to ensure respect for the ceasefire” that was announced last month between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel.

During a visit to Beirut on Monday, Mitsotakis said that Greece and the international community are also doing all they can to “ensure the implementation of UN Resolution 1701, which guarantees Lebanon's full sovereignty over Lebanese territory and provides the conditions for security and sustainable peace for its people."

Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire across Lebanon's southern border for nearly a year in hostilities triggered by the Gaza war, before Israel went on the offensive in September, killing most of Hezbollah's top leadership. A ceasefire went into effect on November 27.

Following talks with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail, the Greek PM underlined that "Greece was and will remain a full partner in the efforts to rebuild Lebanon."

Mikati reiterated "the importance of adhering to the measures taken to implement the ceasefire and ensuring its continuity, especially the full implementation of Resolution 1701."

He considered that Greece's accession to the non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for the years 2025 and 2026 will help defend Lebanon's right to peace and stability, and stopping the Israeli aggression against it.

“We discussed joint cooperation and the potential of concluding bilateral economic and trade agreements between the two countries that may contribute to strengthening and enhancing relations and helping Lebanon emerge from its financial and economic crisis,” said Mikati.

He added that he stressed the important role of the Lebanese army, and Mitsotakis expressed Greece's willingness to work on securing the military's needs, an issue that was discussed in a meeting between Lebanon’s army commander, Gen. Joseph Aoun, and Chief of Staff of the Greek Army, Gen. Dimitrios Choupis.

Lebanese caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Abdullah Bou Habib, and his Greek counterpart, Georgios Gerapetritis, also held separate talks.