2 West Bank Palestinians 2 Arab Muslims behind attack at Ramot Junction; off-duty soldier, armed civilians shoot attackers dead; IDF raids their home villages
Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction.
It is with deep sorrow that the names of the six victims from the t€ rr0r attack in Jerusalem this morning have been announced.
Levi Yitzhak Pash HY”D, 57
Yaakov Pinto HY”D, 25
Yisrael Matzner HY”D, 28
Rabbi Yosef David HY”D, 43
Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag HY”D, 79
Sarah Mendelson HY”D, 60
Six others are hospitalized in serious condition.
At 10 am, two t€ rr0 rists arrived at the extremely busy Ramot Junction in Jerusalem, and opened fire on dozens of people who were waiting at the bus stop. The t€. rr0 rists used makeshift “Carlo” submachine guns.
An off-duty s0 ldier eliminated the t€. rr0 rists, with the help of a few @rmed civilians. The heroic s0 ldier is a commander in the newly formed Haredi Chashmonaim unit.
The t€ rr0. rists were from the villages of Al-Qubeiba and Qatanna, in the Ramallah area, and were in Isr@ el illegally. Isr@. eli forces are now surrounding the villages, and searching for t€. rr0r accomplices.
May those injured have a compete refuah shleimah, and may G-d avenge the bl. L00d of the victims.
Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction.
The two gunmen, residents of the West Bank, arrived at the junction shortly after 10 a.m. — according to some reports, by car — and opened fire at people waiting at a bus stop as well at a bus that had just stopped there.
Police said that a soldier and a number of civilians who were present at the scene fired at the terrorists and killed them.