Israeli security and emergency service staff deployed at the site of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem, on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Muammar Awad/Xinhua)
JERUSALEM, July 19 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian man was shot after he attacked an Israeli bus driver with a screwdriver in East Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon, the Israeli police said in a statement.
The incident took place inside a bus near the Ramot Junction, a crossroad in a settlement neighborhood of Jerusalem, according to the statement.
Israeli security and emergency service staff deployed at the site of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem, on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Muammar Awad/Xinhua)
The 41-year-old driver sustained moderate injuries and was taken to a hospital, said the Magen David Adom emergency health service in a statement
The assailant "was shot and neutralized," the police said, without elaborating on his condition.
Israel's state-owned Kan TV news reported that a civilian passing by the scene shot the alleged assailant, a resident of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli security and emergency service staff deployed at the site of a stabbing attack near the Israeli settlement of Ramot in East Jerusalem, on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Muammar Awad/Xinhua)■
