Authorities examine the particles of a truck after a truck hit folks ready at a bus cease close to the Glilot intersection on October 27, 2024 north of Tel Aviv, Israel | Picture credit score: Getty Photographs
A driver rammed his truck right into a crowd of individuals at a bus cease in central Israel on Sunday (Oct. 27, 2024), killing one man and injuring greater than two dozen folks, medical doctors and police mentioned.
Police didn’t instantly say whether or not the incident, close to the headquarters of the Mossad spy company and different Israeli intelligence websites, was an assault or an accident.
In a separate incident, Israeli troopers killed a person the military mentioned tried to stab them throughout a “counterterrorism” operation close to Jerusalem, describing it as a “terrorist assault” towards troops.
“The truck that rammed in Ramat Hasharon, north of the business heart of Tel Aviv in Israel, left a minimum of 29 folks injured, together with a number of in critical situation,” emergency companies supplier Magen David Adom mentioned in an announcement.
“One of many injured later died from his accidents,” mentioned the hospital the place he was taken for remedy.
Preliminary police findings confirmed that the truck driver additionally crashed right into a bus that had stopped on the identical station to drop off passengers, police mentioned in an announcement.
The police added that civilians who had been on the scene “shot on the truck driver and neutralized him.”
Paramedic Elior Yosef, who arrived on the bus cease after the crash, mentioned he noticed eight folks “trapped below the truck.”
“Another victims had been mendacity or strolling close to the truck,” Magen David Adom mentioned within the assertion.
Brokers and ambulances went to the scene, the place AFP Journalists noticed police cordoning off the world whereas medics helped the injured and a helicopter hovered overhead.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas, in an announcement, mentioned the “heroic ramming assault” that was carried out close to “the Mossad headquarters… was in response to the crimes dedicated by the Zionist occupation” towards the Palestinians.
Individually, the military mentioned a person who tried to stab a gaggle of troopers died in Hizma, a Palestinian metropolis close to Jerusalem.
“A terrorist accelerated along with his car in the direction of IDF (military) troopers who had been finishing up counterterrorism actions adjoining to the Hizma space,” the military mentioned in an announcement, with out figuring out the attacker.
“The terrorist took a knife from his car and tried to hold out an assault with a knife. The troopers eradicated the terrorist and foiled the tried terrorist assault,” he mentioned, including that no troopers had been injured.
Since struggle broke out in Gaza on October 7 final yr, there have been a number of assaults in Israel carried out by Palestinian militants.
At the least 30 folks, together with Israeli troopers, have been killed in such assaults in Israel, report says AFP depend primarily based on official Israeli figures.
The incidents on Sunday (Oct. 27, 2024) come as Israel held ceremonies to mark the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault that sparked the continued wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
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