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Jerusalem: Eighteen wounded in attack on bus | Jerusalem: Eighteen wounded in attack on bus |
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Shooting and stabbing attacks in Jerusalem and northern Israel have left one Israeli dead and many injured, the Israeli ambulance service says. | |
Sixteen were wounded, eight seriously, when two assailants opened fire and stabbed passengers on a bus in Jerusalem. Police shot the attackers. | |
Others were injured in another attack in Jerusalem and two in Raanana. | |
Near-daily stabbings by Palestinians have left Israelis dead and wounded over the past fortnight. | |
Several attackers and at least 17 other Palestinians have been killed in the upsurge of violence. | |
Police said officers arrived at the scene of Tuesday's bus attack and shot the attackers, killing at least one. | |
Elsewhere in the city, a man ran over three people at a bus station and then stabbed them with a knife, police said. The attacker was shot by police. | Elsewhere in the city, a man ran over three people at a bus station and then stabbed them with a knife, police said. The attacker was shot by police. |
Also on Tuesday, a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man, moderately wounding him, at a bust stop in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, police said. The attacker was captured and reportedly beaten by passers-by. | |
Later, an Israeli woman was stabbed and wounded in a second attack in Raanana, police said. The assailant fled, but was then arrested by police. | |
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have escalated since last month, fuelled by clashes at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and across the Gaza border, as well as the wave of stabbings. | Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have escalated since last month, fuelled by clashes at a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem, in the West Bank, and across the Gaza border, as well as the wave of stabbings. |