West Bank Settlement Targeted in Shooting Attack; Suspect Killed After Injuring 6
A Palestinian gunman was killed on Tuesday after injuring six people in a shooting attack in the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, Israeli police said.
According to the Israeli emergency medical service Magen David Adom, the victims, the victims were all male, ranging in age from 14 to 37 years old. Media reports say two of the victims were seriously injured, three others were moderately hurt, and one had light injuries. The Palestinian assailant opened fire on the residents outside of a shopping mall.
An off-duty police officer heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene. Once confronted, the assailant began to shoot at the officer, who returned fire, killing the assailant.
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The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the suspect as 20-year-old Muhannad al-Mazraa from al-Eizariya, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, just east of Jerusalem. He was dressed in a neon vest, posing as a security guard, and had obtained a work permit as a cleaner at a community center in the settlement, a city of around 38,000 people.
The Islamic armed groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad did not claim responsibility for the act but praised it as “heroic.”
“This operation is a natural response to the storming of the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Islamic Jihad spokesman Tariq Salami said, referring to a visit to the Temple Mount by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and thousands of other religious Jews last week to mark the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av.
At least 26 people, most of them Israelis, have been killed in Palestinian attacks, and about 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers, since the beginning of the year.
