Gunmen launch deadly attack near West Bank settlement • FRANCE 24 English
This morning reports are emerging of an attack near a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank Israeli police say three gunman open fire and at least one person was killed well for the very latest our senior reporter Katherine Norris Trent is standing by for us in Jerusalem not
Far from where this attack took place Katherine what do we know this morning we know that this attack according to Israeli police took place at around 7:30 a.m. at a check point on the main Highway leading east of Jerusalem um near the settlement in the occupied West Bank of Mali adumim um one
Israeli reported killed a number of others uh said to be injured some of them severely so um and according to Israeli security sources there were three gunmen who opened fire on those cars waiting at that checkpoint in slow morning early morning traffic with automatic weapons two of those gunmen
Were shot dead at the SE seen um one of them was later found in the area and detained but this shows just how tense the situation in and around the West Bank remains um and to illustrate that we’ve had the national security minister far right itamar benava who’s been down
At the scene he himself lives in a settlement in the West Bank and he said that this shows the need for the arming of more further arming of settlers he says he’s been Distributing guns and will continue to do so also another farri minute minister in in the C
Current uh government bezel smotrich the Finance Minister says that the Israeli response to this should be the building a thousands more settlements in that area and throughout the occupied West Bank and there are real fears that this tension which has been simmering in the West Bank which we’ve been reporting on
Now for months alongside the conflict in Gaza is reaching boiling point and it could just take a spark to to set this whole thing off well you you said it Catherine this attack today underscores huge huge volatility we’re seeing in Israel and the West Bank amid the war in
Gaza just tell us a little more that’s right I mean the whole region is on edge um and there are fears that in the the holy Muslim month the Ramadan next month that could get a lot worse not only because that’s when um the Israeli government or members of the
War cabinet have said that they could launch a major offensive on Rafa but because of issues Spark by access to the AL AXA mosque one of the holiest sites in Islam and there have been a lot of reports that the Israeli government is considering severely restricting access to that
Potentially to only men over age 70 or only from um Muslims living with inside Israel’s 1948 uh boundaries and that that is sparking a lot of anger in fact it’s being reported even in the Israeli media that the heads of shinb the intelligence agency are warning that this could be an
Inflammatory move and could set off tensions I mean you have hundreds of thousands of people who come to pray at Alexa um during radam and it’s can be a sight for tensions we’ve seen that in the past and it’s such a sensitive issue that it risks also setting off unrest if
There are tensions or violence around the mosque at that very sensitive time
Three Palestinian gunmen killed one person and wounded eight when they sprayed automatic weapons fire at vehicles in a “terror attack” Thursday near a Jewish settlement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, police said, as tensions in the territory soar amid the war in Gaza. France 24’s Catherine Norris Trent reports from Jerusalem.
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10 comments
“At least 1 Paterson was killed” in fact 3 dead. The reporters obviously just care about Israelis lives
Check point,settlement,stay in your territories,
Should we call stealmean as civilian?
"gunmen"? colonialists like to stick together.
Not "settlement". Colony.
Not white Americans did it so it's terror attack
This is the people that the world is talking about having a state.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since Oct 7th and before. I'm not surprised they are trying to fight back.
White colonial settlements with Apartheid roads. Yes, I’ve been there.
AND THEY WONDER WHY there are concrete WALLS and FENCES.
The "Peaceful religion" and "innocent civilians" strikes again.