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TERROR IN JERUSALEM: At least 19 injured, 1 dead; 3 in critical condition
November 23, 2022
World Israel News
(Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90)
Multiple people were wounded, several critically, after terrorists bomb bus stops in Jerusalem. One victim reportedly succumbed to his injuries. This is a developing story.
By World Israel News Staff
At least 19 people were injured in a pair of terrorist bombings in Jerusalem Wednesday morning.
Bombs went off at bus stops near the city entrance off of Weizmann Boulevard and at Ramot Junction, where three people were reported injured.
Four of the victims of the Weizmann Boulevard bombing are listed in critical condition, with two more in serious condition. All three of the victims of the Ramot bombing are listed in light condition.
The first explosion, near Weizmann Boulevard, was reported at 7:06 a.m.
“We were at the MDA station by the entrance to the city when we heard a large explosion,” MDA paramedics Moshe Tobolsky and Lior Levy said.
“We immediately headed to the scene in large numbers, including ambulances, MICUs and medicycles. two seriously wounded were lying nearby, a 16-year-old in the bus stop and a 45-year-old on the sidewalk. A number of moderately and mildly injured victims were ambulatory on scene. We rapidly conveyed the seriously injured in MICUs to hospital while providing life-saving treatment.”
Shortly afterwards, a second explosion was reported at a bus stop at Ramot Junction.
“While driving in the area on our emergency ‘ambucycles’ we heard the explosion which happened at a bus stop,” United Hatzalah EMTs Dani Shmueli and Yossi Eisenstein said.
“We arrived within mere seconds at the scene and provided assistance to three people who sustained light injuries from shrapnel. A United Hatzalah ambulance evacuated one of the injured to the hospital. United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit has also been dispatched and is treating numerous eyewitnesses for emotional and psychological shock.”
Victim of Jerusalem bombing, 16, was a Canadian yeshiva student
November 23, 2022
Victim of Jerusalem bombing, 16, was a Canadian yeshiva student. Aryeh Schupak, 16, was killed
in a terror attack at the entrance to Jerusalem, Nov. 23, 2022. (Twitter)
Police believe the attacks were carried out by an organized terror cell.
By World Israel News Staff
The teen victim of a Jerusalem terror attack Wednesday morning was identified as Aryeh Schupak, a Canadian citizen who lived in the city’s Har Nof neighborhood and was studying at a yeshiva in Beit Meir, just west of the capital.
At least 19 others were injured, several critically, when two bombs detonated, one after the other, during the morning rush hour – the first at a bus stop at the entrance to the city, where Shechopek was waiting for a ride, and the second on an empty bus at the Ramot junction in the northern end of Jerusalem.
The wounded victims were sent to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Ein-Kerem hospitals.
The explosive devices had been placed in bags left at the locations. They reportedly were packed with nails, reminiscent of bombs detonated during the Second Intifada.
Police, who said the explosives were of a “high quality,” and security officials are searching the city for more potential explosions as well as for the terrorists. They believe the attacks were carried out by an organized terror cell.
A Palestinian terror cell.
“The main effort of the Israel Police is currently scanning all areas – bus stops, transportation and crowd gatherings, in parallel with the effort of the pursuit in order to get hold of the perpetrator of the attack,” said Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai. “We will do everything in our power together with all the other security forces to get to this cell.”
The funeral began Sunday afternoon at 2:45 and was attended by hundreds. Schupak was buried at the Har Hamenuchot cemetery at the western entrance to Jerusalem.
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