1 Israeli killed in al-Quds bus attack

At least one Israeli has been killed and seven others wounded in an attack on a bus in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The incident took place on Monday when an attacker, who has been identified by Israeli media as
Muhammed Naif El-Ja’abis, rammed the front end of a construction excavator into an Israeli bus.
According to Israeli officials, the excavator overturned the bus prompting two police officers who were in the vicinity to open fire. They killed the driver.
“Two police happened to be in the area.... They got out of their car and fired at the (excavator) and as a result (the driver) was killed,” al-Quds police chief, Yossi Pariente, told reporters at the scene.
Meanwhile, reports said a member of the Israeli security forces was injured in a shooting incident near the bus attack site.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas described the operation as a natural reaction to Israel’s massacres in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Before the incident, Israel had declared a seven-hour ceasefire in some parts of Gaza as it excluded the town of Rafah, which saw heavy fighting on Sunday.
However, shortly after the unilateral truce started at 10 a.m. (0700 GMT), an Israeli airstrike targeted a house at the Shati refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a child and leaving 30 people wounded.
Israel launched a military offensive in Gaza on July 8 and has since carried out more than 4,600 airstrikes across the blockaded enclave. Israeli forces also began a ground offensive against the besieged Palestinian territory on July 17.
According to Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s airstrikes and ground invasion have left at least 1,822 people dead and some 9,400 others injured.
The Israeli military says 64 soldiers have been killed in the conflict, but Palestinian resistance movement Hamas puts the fatalities at more than 150.