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.



Israeli Strike on Tent Camp in Gaza Humanitarian Zone Kills at Least 40 People

10 September 2024, Palestinian Territories, Al-Mawasi: Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble after Israeli attacks hit the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis. Photo: Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
10 September 2024, Palestinian Territories, Al-Mawasi: Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble after Israeli attacks hit the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis. Photo: Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israeli Strike on Tent Camp in Gaza Humanitarian Zone Kills at Least 40 People

10 September 2024, Palestinian Territories, Al-Mawasi: Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble after Israeli attacks hit the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis. Photo: Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
10 September 2024, Palestinian Territories, Al-Mawasi: Palestinians search for missing people under the rubble after Israeli attacks hit the Al-Mawasi area near Khan Younis. Photo: Saher Alghorra/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

An Israeli strike on a crowded tent camp housing Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza killed at least 40 people and wounded 60 others early Tuesday, Palestinian officials said.

The Civil Defense said it had recovered 40 bodies from the strike in a designated humanitarian zone known as Mawasi and was still looking for people. It said entire families had been killed as they huddled in tents.

An Associated Press cameraman saw three large craters at the scene, where first responders and displaced people were sifting through the sand and rubble with garden tools and their bare hands by the light of mobile phones after the predawn strike.

The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, one of three hospitals to receive casualties, said around two dozen bodies had been brought in from the strike.

The Israeli military said it had struck Hamas militants who were operating in a command-and-control center. It said its forces had used precise munitions, aerial surveillance and other means to avoid civilian casualties.

Hamas released a statement denying any militants were in the area.

Aid groups have struggled to provide even basic services in Mawasi, and Israel has occasionally struck targets there despite designating it as a humanitarian zone.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began.