Fire opened in traffic jam

Dead and injured in attack near Jerusalem

One person was killed in a suspected terrorist attack near Jerusalem.(Bild: AFP)

One person was killed and another eight injured, some of them seriously, in a terrorist attack near Jerusalem. According to the police, the perpetrators shot at people on a highway. They got out of their vehicles during a traffic jam and suddenly grabbed automatic weapons.

According to police, the incident (see video above) took place between the settler town of Maale Adumim and Jerusalem. There were three perpetrators from Palestine between the ages of 26 and 31. Two of them were shot dead on the spot, while the third was caught on the run and also killed. The background to the incident was not initially known. One Israeli was killed in the attack. According to the rescue services, a further eight people were injured, two women seriously.

This is the second shooting attack within a week. On Friday, attackers shot dead two people in an attack on a bus station in southern Israel.

It is the second shooting attack in a week.(Bild: AFP)

The perpetrators are Palestinians aged between 26 and 31.(Bild: AFP)

Rescue workers and police were deployed.(Bild: AFP)

Attacks in the Gaza Strip intensified
The Israeli military has been waging war against the Islamist Hamas for more than four months. Recently, the air force intensified its attacks on targets in the city of Rafah. According to an eyewitness, one particular neighborhood (al-Shabura) in particular was attacked on Thursday night. According to Hamas, 99 people were killed in the attacks.

More than a million people have fled to Rafah near the border with Egypt since the war began. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the "last remaining bastions of Hamas" are in the area.