A gunman shot and injured two Israelis in Jerusalem, Israeli police said on Tuesday (April 18th). Since then, the police and the border guards have been carrying out a manhunt to find the author of the shots in what the israeli police suspect to be a ” terrorist attack “. The police added that they had found a “Carlo” submachine gun, a clandestinely manufactured submachine gun used by the assailant.
The Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, added that the injured, two men, continued to drive after the attack targeted their car shortly before 7:10 a.m. (6:10 a.m. in Paris) in the neighborhood. of Sheikh Jarrah, in East Jerusalem, and had reported it to the police, before being taken care of by the emergency services.
The neighborhood was cordoned off and large numbers of heavily armed law enforcement personnel were deployed there.
The shootings took place near a Jewish shrine: Sheikh Jarrah was at the heart of tensions in 2021 between residents and Israeli settlers trying to gain ground there. The attack comes as Israel commemorates the Holocaust and against the backdrop of renewed Israeli-Palestinian violence since the start of the year.
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