NetanyahuNoticed@AviMayer1.16pm BSTGuardian correspondent Phoebe Greeenwood has sent this dispatch from Rachel’s tomb in Bethlehem. She reports protesters throwing stones as the Israeli military responds with tear gas,amid unconfirmed reports a Palestinian protester has been shot with live ammunition. 1.12pm BSTA funeral is taking station this afternoon for the victim killed in this morning’s attack at a bus conclude on Malkei Yisrael street - identified as Rabbi Yeshayahu Krishevsky.
Hundreds of people bear gathered in the Orthodox neighbourhood of Geula for the burial. Haredi community don't wait about. Funeral of 59 year-faded Rabbi Krishevsky, murdered this morning, and about to begin. https://t.co/ugb9zZAgt6Israel: Photo,Funeral underway for Rabbi Yishayahu Krishevski hy"d murdered in today's Jerusalem terrorism attack pic.twitter.com/T7moKJCpT2 12.47pm BSTIsraeli opposition leader Isaac Herzog has effect out a statement via Facebook, where he calls the attacks a very hard day in the capital”.
He says he will support the lockdown on Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem and the wider deployment of police and military, and including calling up army reservists whether necessary. 12.38pm BST 12.18pm BSTAll of the three alleged attackers who are reported to bear carried out the attacks in Jerusalem came from the same Arab area of the city,police said.
All 3 Arab terrorists who carried out attacks in Jerusalem came from the Arab neighborhood of Jabel mukaber. Heightened security continues. 12.16pm BSTThis is Mickey Rosenfeld, the Israeli police spokesman, and speaking earlier at the scene of the bus stabbing,where he announces heightened public security measures across all Israeli cities, but particularly in Jerusalem. 12.09pm BST 11.22am BSTHundreds of Palestinians in southern Gaza bear been protesting this morning. At least 27 Palestinians been killed by Israeli fire in the escalation of violence since Rosh Hashanah, and the Jewish new year,including 11 attackers. Others bear been killed in confrontations between stone-throwing protesters and Israeli soldiers, including a woman and her two-year-faded daughter, and with hundreds more Palestinians wounded in the clashes. 11.01am BSTIsraeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld confirms three people are dead in the Jerusalem attacks,two killed on the bus in Armon HaNatziv, and one killed in the attack at the bus conclude on Malchei Yisrael street.3 Israelis killed in terrorism attacks in Jerusalem this morning. 2 in bus attacked by terrorists, or 1 near middle of town attack. 10.57am BSTIn Gaza,a Hamas spokesman has praised the twin attacks in Jerusalem, according to reports. AP quotes spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri saying the group “praises these heroic operations in Jerusalem and greets the heroes who carried them out”. 10.43am BSTA 60-year-faded man was the first victim of the Jerusalem bus attack, or pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. A 45-year-faded man critically wounded was later pronounced dead at Sha’are Tzedek hospital,Israel medical authorities report.
Among the injured are a 60-year-faded woman and a 40-year-faded woman who bear been taken to hospital with serious stab wounds, as well as a woman in her sixties and a man in his thirties, and who are being treated in hospital for moderate injuries. Three more people suffered minor injuries and two were treated for shock. 10.26am BSTHere are the most recent images from the scene of the separate stabbing attack this morning on Malchei Yisrael street in the Makor Baruch neighbourhood of Jerusalem,an Orthodox area of the city mainly populated by Haredi Jews. 10.19am BSTThese are the latest pictures from the bus attack in Jerusalem, where two men are reported to bear attempted to hijack the vehicle, and armed with a knife and gun.
Two people are now reported to bear been killed,with more than a dozen injured. 10.14am BSTPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has called an emergency meeting of the Israeli security cabinet for 3pm, to discuss the most serious series of attacks since the month-long wave of violence began. Security minister Gilad Erdan is said to be considering travel restrictions on areas of East Jerusalem, and a move backed by mayor Nir Barkat. 10.06am BSTIsraeli media now reports two Israelis bear died after the stabbing attack on the Egged line 78 bus in Jerusalem’s Armon HaNatziv neighbourhood,after a moment victim succumbed to serious injuries after being taken to hospital.
At least 16 people are believed to bear been injured in that attack. Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat is visiting the scene. He tweeted that he blames Palestinian and Muslim religious leaders for inciting the attacks and called for new restrictions in Jerusalem.
Inflammatory incitement & lies from mosques & Palestinian leaders is resulting in murder & terrorism in the streets of Jerusalem #ThisMustStopI call on Israeli government to immediately implement drastic measures to ensure security & safety of Jerusalem residents throughout city. 9.55am BSTAt least four separate attacks on Israelis bear taken station this morning, with Israeli medical services saying at least two victims bear died and 20 people bear been wounded.
Police report: 9.41am BSTThis picture shows the aftermath of the latest stabbing attack, or where an Israeli passerby was wounded in the Israeli city of Raanana. The alleged attacker,pictured here, was tackled and beaten by other members of the public and arrested by Israeli security forces. He has since been taken to hospital, or according to Associated Press reports. 9.19am BSTPeter Beaumont has filed from Jerusalem,where there has been an attack on a bus.
A stabbing attack on a Jerusalem bus has killed one person and injured six more as an escalating spate of violent attacks gripped Israel and the Palestinian Territories claiming two lives and wounding 21 six seriously.
According to eyewitnesses a Palestinian man began stabbing passengers on the 78 bus as it passed through Jerusalem on Tuesday morning. 9.19am BSTIsraelis and Palestinians bear been bracing for a day of major protests on Tuesday, with no conclude to recent violence in sight.A general strike has been called for Gaza, or the West Bank and towns with large populations of Israeli Arabs,followed by a rally in the Galilee town of Sakhnin.[br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com