Two seriously injured in Jerusalem shooting attack

Three terrorists armed with sub-machine guns, knives and bombs open fire on Border Police near Damascus Gate.

By Ari Sofer, ARUTZ SHEVA

Two female border police officers aged 19 and 20 have been seriously wounded in a shooting attack close to Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate.

Both officers have been evacuated to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Mount Scopus hospital.

One of the casualties is in critical condition and on a respirator, while the condition of the second victim has stabilized somewhat and is now classified as moderate-to-serious.

According to initial reports, three Arab terrorists armed with concealed Carl Gustav sub-machine guns, knives and bombs were spotted acting suspiciously by Border Police officers close to Damascus Gate.

When officers approached, one of the terrorists produced his ID, and another suddenly opened fire, wounding two officers.

Other officers in the vicinity returned fire, eliminating all three.

The terrorists have been identified as Palestinian Arabs from the Jenin area in Samaria.

It is the second attack this week, following Sunday’s shooting attack between Bet El and Ramallah, just north of Jerusalem.

Several other attacks have also been thwarted this week by alert police officers, including several planned stabbing attacks.

February 3, 2016 | 1 Comment »

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  1. Roll back into place the checkpoints and curfews immediately, and leave them there and call up troops to protect the police and institute mechanisms for ratcheting up of the mobilization on The borders, all of them. War could break out at any time, on multiple fronts. The public should gather and store non perishable food stuffs and acquire protection.
    Netanyahu, it seems, needs to go, now. He is finished, unless he replaces Ya’alon and the other combina mutants. He may be finished regardless what he tries to do now. Unfortunately, it may have to wait.
    Abbas, Erikat and any other identified accomplices in The PA should be picked up and charged with multiple murder and inciting to genocide. Every single one of them.
    No delay.