At least three people were slightly injured this Monday in a car crash, which authorities consider an attempted attack, near the central bus station in Jerusalem, the Police Force reported in a statement.
“Thereupon, two terrorists got out of the vehicle armed with a ‘Carlo’ type weapon and tried to open fire without success,” details the statement, which says that they then threw the machine gun on the road and fled.
The spokesman for the Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom provided medical care to the injured and evacuated two to the Shaare Tzedek hospital, according to a statement, in which he details that one would be an 18-year-old young man with a “moderate” head injury. , and another 22-year-old also with injuries to the head and face.
The pedestrian attack occurred on Mordechai Tekhelet Street, in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem and just over a kilometer from the bus station, where police forces are still deployed in order to locate the two attackers.
Images from surveillance cameras in the area show the attack and the attempted shooting attack. In the video, a car is seen accelerating towards a group of people and then running over them.
In Jerusalem, whose eastern part is militarily occupied by Israel, violent attacks occur quite regularly, such as attempted stabbings or attacks often perpetrated by Palestinians against military checkpoints or Israeli security forces.
