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Monday 19 October 2015
Israel: Assailant opens fire on bus station, soldier killed
TIA GOLDENBERG bus station in the southern Israeli police stand by the shrouded body of Palestinian attacker in Beersheba, Israel, Sunday,
Associated Press city of Beersheba and be-
JERUSALEM (AP) — An gan shooting and stab- Oct. 18, 2015. An Arab attacker armed with a gun and a knife opened fire in a southern Israel
Arab attacker armed with bing people. They said an
a gun and a knife opened Israeli soldier was killed, bus station on Sunday, police said, killing an Israeli soldier and wounding 10 people in one of
fire in a southern Israel bus five police were lightly
station on Sunday, police wounded and five civilians the boldest attacks yet in a month long wave of violence. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
said, killing an Israeli soldier were wounded to varying
and wounding 10 people degrees. tion. Security camera foot- amid near-daily bouts of tensions surrounding a Je-
in one of the boldest at- Yoram Halevy, a police age from the bus station violence that has hit Israel rusalem holy site sacred to
tacks yet in a monthlong commander in southern aired on Israeli TV showed and the Palestinian territo- Jews and Muslims. It soon
wave of violence. Israel, told reporters that in what appeared to be a ries over the past month. spread to Arab neighbor-
The attack came as Israel addition to the knife and civilian shooting the at- After the attack, a crowd hoods of east Jerusalem
further tightened security gun he entered with, the tacker as soldiers and ci- of Israelis gathered outside and then to the West Bank,
around the country, high- attacker also snatched a vilians crouched for cover the bus station and chant- Gaza and Israel.
lighted by the construc- weapon from the soldier nearby. ed "death to Arabs." Israel has struggled to con-
tion of a barrier separating he killed. The attack was one of The unrest erupted in Jeru- tain near-daily attacks by
Jewish and Arab neigh- The attacker, whose iden- the most serious incidents salem a month ago over Palestinian assailants.q
borhoods in east Jerusa- tity was not immediately
lem. In a bid to halt the known, was shot and killed.
fighting, U.S. Secretary of A foreigner was shot by po-
State John Kerry said he lice during the attack after
would meet the Israeli and they apparently mistook
Palestinian leaders in the him for an assailant. Ha-
coming days. levy said security forces re-
Israel has deployed thou- sponding to the attack en-
sands of police, backed tered the bus station from
up by troops, to maintain another area and saw a
order following a spate of "foreign national," shooting
attacks, mostly stabbings, and wounding him.
by Palestinian assailants. Israeli media said the for-
Those measures have so eigner was an Eritrean na-
far failed to stop the vio- tional living in Israel.
lence. Israeli media showed foot-
In Sunday night's attack, age of a blood-streaked
police said the Arab as- floor and rows of ambu-
sailant entered the central lances outside the bus sta-
