Fourteen people were injured when a car crashed into the crowd in the center of Jerusalem on the night of Wednesday February 5 to Thursday February 6, aid and the Israeli army said.
Rescue organization Magen David said it had "Treated and evacuated" fourteen people at the level of the First station, an old station converted into a very busy space welcoming shops and outdoor restaurants, south of the old city, west Jerusalem side.
Police said the car ran into the crowd around 1:45 a.m. on the avenue bypassing this former Ottoman train station. “Police units and rescuers arrived on the scene and are trying to find the vehicle. Investigation for act of terrorism has been opened ", Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld announced.
Palestinian killed in Jenin
One person was seriously injured, another "Moderately" and the other twelve slightly, said the rescuers. "I treated a person who was in serious condition after suffering a trauma"said Aharon Pomp, a rescuer from United Hatzalah, who said in a media message that he has treated at least eight people for trauma.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian was killed and seven others injured in clashes with the Israeli army early Thursday in Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
Witnesses said the clashes erupted after the Israeli army entered the city to destroy a house. An AFP photographer on site saw the body of the killed Palestinian at a hospital in Jenin.
These incidents come just over a week after the announcement of the American project for the Middle East, which notably plans to make Jerusalem the capital. "Indivisible" Israel. According to this plan promoted by Donald Trump, the Hebrew state could also annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, particularly in the Jordan Valley. The project also calls for the creation of a demilitarized Palestinian state over what remains of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
