At least one person was killed in two explosions at bus stations in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, an Israeli police spokesman told AFP.
The man, who was not immediately identified, was seriously injured in one of the two explosions, which were described as “attacks“by the police. He died of his injuries at Shaare Zedek Hospital.
An explosion at a bus stop outside Jerusalem injured 12 people, two seriously, and a second at another station, a bus collapsed and three were injured, rescue workers said, while Israeli police are calling for two blasts.attacks“.
Deadly attacks
An AFP photographer who was present at the scene of the first blast said the blast hit an iron fence behind the bus stop, an electric scooter and a hood on the ground. And while police were on the scene, according to the photographer, another explosion was heard a short distance away.
Since the deadly attacks in Israel in March and April of last year and other attacks that have followed, the Israeli military has carried out more than 2,000 attacks in the West Bank. These raids and the clashes that sometimes accompany them have killed more than 125 Palestinians, the worst in seven years, according to the United Nations.
Without claiming responsibility for the Jerusalem attacks, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, “greeted“Considering them in the statement as”the price of crimes and assaults“Israel”against our people“.
Abductions of Israelis
Earlier Wednesday, the Israeli military said the remains of an 18-year-old Israeli citizen died on Tuesday.serious traffic accidentwas in the occupied West BankkidnappedHe was pronounced dead at a hospital in Jenin, a stronghold of the armed groups in the northern West Bank.
There was no immediate claim of abduction, but local sources told AFP that Palestinian fighters in a nearby refugee camp were now near the body.
Kidnappings of Israelis, dead or alive, have previously been used as bargaining chips by armed groups to demand the release of prisoners or the return of the bodies of Palestinians killed during clashes and held by Israel.
Source: Le Figaro
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