‘High quality’ explosive charges were placed in a bush and behind wall, police official says
Head of the police operations division Sigal Bar Zvi said that the explosive charges were very powerful and of “high quality.” “We are witnessing a series of terror attacks, mostly in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] and today in Jerusalem. It is clear that there is an intention to harm the public resilience and morale.” Bar Zvi confirmed that the attacks were masterminded by an organized cell and weren’t spontaneous. The devices, she added, were placed in a bush and behind a wall near the bus station.
Two explosions in Jerusalem * 7 injured near Central Bus Station * Second bombing near Ramot
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Updated: NOVEMBER 23, 2022 08:30
Israeli security forces and medics gather in Jerusalem following an explosion at a bus stop which wounded at least seven people, two of them seriously, on November 23, 2022. (photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)
Two explosions rocked the entrance to the city of Jerusalem on Wednesday morning near the Central Bus Station at the entrance to Jerusalem and a second at the entrance the neighborhood of Ramot, wounding at least 18 people. Two of the injured were in serious condition.
The causes of the explosions were not immediately determined but Israel Police said that the one near the Central Bus Station appeared to have been caused by a bomb placed in a bag near the bus. The bus was riddled with holes, showing the dispersion of shrapnel. Another explosion went off minutes later near the Ramot Intersection in northern Jerusalem.
Police are treating the two explosions as a coordinated joint attack.
Five of the injured were evacuated to Shaare Tzedek Medical Center, two in critical condition, two in serious condition, and one moderately injured. Another five were evacuated to Hadassah-University Medical Center in Ein Kerem.
United Hatzalah EMTs were on the scene of the explosions and the United Hatzalah Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit has also been dispatched and is treating numerous eyewitnesses for emotional and psychological shock.
The scene of the explosion at the entrance to Jerusalem (credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90)
In recent months, Israel has been experiencing a wave of terrorism although the attacks until now have mostly been in the West Bank and were carried out by Palestinians using either assault rifles or knives. Last week, three Israelis were killed in a stabbing rampage at the entrance to the settlement of Ariel in the Shomron region of the West Bank.
Last week a car exploded close to an IDF post near the settlement of Mevo Dotan in the West Bank. The car, which had three gas cylinders and wires, is believed to have exploded in a botched car bombing.
Explosion at the entrance to Jerusalem (credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90)
Road One – the main artery into the capital – was shut to incoming traffic from the direction of Tel Aviv.
Prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said in response to the attack that he is “praying to the health of the injured people, in the coordinated terror attack in Jerusalem this morning and send my support to the security forces who are operating on the ground.”
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Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir – likely to serve as the public security minister in the new government – issued a statement: “I am on my way to the scene of the painful and sad attack when an explosive device has returned us to the dammed Intifada time. It is time to act with determination and a hard hand against the terrorists, it is time to organize the country.”
“I am praying for the recovery of the injured people along with all of Israel at this difficult hour.”
Group praising Jerusalem bombing banned from Twitter by Elon Musk
Thank you Elon
@Honeybee
“Somewhere there’s a place for us” seen in this context could be seen as a Zionist song.
Leonard Bernstein was very Zionist.
https://leonardbernstein.com/about/conductor/historic-concerts/beersheba-1948#:~:text=Leonard%20Bernstein%20in%20Beersheba%2C%20Israel%2C%20November%2020%2C%201948&text=Leonard%20Bernstein%20made%20musical%20history,armed%20forces%20of%20its%20enemy.
I like this jazz rendition with Dionne Warwick
https://youtu.be/Ow4_VGKJ44Y
Will there ever be a safe place for Jews to live in peace?
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/363292
That’s because she only reads legacy media instead of Arutz Sheva which is the only publication that reports on most of these attacks which are a daily occurrence and are what got him elected in the first place!
We do seem to have more crazy people.
“While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.”
Lin Yutang in 1937.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lin_Yutang
“Jew-hatred burgeons in the US”
by Steve Kramer
https://www.israpundit.org/jew-hatred-burgeons-in-the-us/
Thanks, Steve. That’s comforting to know. But, we haven’t had any bus bombings lately here in NY.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-723133
I spoke too soon. Never mind.
I guess the legacy media in Israel and around the world couldn’t ignore this one as they do most of the terror attacks in Israel.
If no one died, it is truly miraculous, as is the number of wounded.
(I might be inclined to say if I were feeling superstitious.)