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Two Dead in Shooting in Southern Israel

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Two Dead in Shooting in Southern Israel
©Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack in the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on February 16, 2024. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, according to sources from the hospital and the police.



Two people who were brought to Kaplan Medical Center had been declared dead, a spokeswoman for the facility told AFP. Four others were wounded in the shooting, Israeli police said.
An AFP photographer at the scene reported the gunman had been killed, and his body was still at the site of the attack.
Police said he had been "neutralized" by a civilian at the scene. "We have raised a national-level alert," Israel's police chief, Kobi Shabtai, told reporters at the site, without providing details on the attacker.
On Sunday evening, there were two stabbing attacks — one against police in annexed East Jerusalem and the other against troops at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank.The attackers in both incidents were killed, while there were no casualties among security forces.

Kiryat Malakhi is located about 25 kilometers (15 miles) north of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's war with Hamas militants has raged for more than four months.


With AFP

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