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2023-08-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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6 Israelis wounded, one seriously, in terror shooting in Ma’ale Adumim
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[IsraelTimes] Off-duty officer kills Paleostinian terrorist in a shootout outside mall in West Bank settlement city; worker at burger joint says ’bullet flew by my face,’ another hit a customer
Six Israelis were shot and maimed, one of them seriously, in a terror attack in the West Bank settlement city of Ma’ale Adumim on Tuesday afternoon, police and medical officials said. According to law enforcement officials, the Paleostinian terrorist shot up a group of people, including diners at a burger restaurant, in a plaza outside a main shopping mall in the settlement, before being rubbed out by an off-duty police officer while attempting to flee the scene.
The Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service said one of the victims, a man in his 40s, was listed at death's door. Four victims — a 14-year-old boy and men aged 28, 29 and 37 — were listed in moderate condition, MDA said. Another man in his 20s was lightly hurt, according to hospital officials. The six were taken to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in Jerusalem for treatment.
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Police said an off-duty Border Police officer, who was about to get a haircut at a nearby barbershop, heard gunfire and shouting. He rushed to the scene to search for the terrorist, who had fled.
"The terrorist started shooting at the officer," police said, adding that he engaged with the gunman and killed him.
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and the head of the Border Police, Deputy Commissioner Brik Yitzhak, headed to the scene, where they spoke with the officer who shot the terrorist.
"I saw a man wearing a reflective vest with a handgun. I wasn’t sure yet if this was the terrorist. I called on him to stop and cocked my gun. He didn’t stop and started to open fire at me. The moment he fired at me I realized it was the terrorist," the officer told Shabtai.
Speaking to the press, Shabtai said the terrorist "opened fire in all directions," and the officer "prevented a broader terror attack.
Another one of the victims in the attack was the barber of the officer who killed the terrorist. Speaking to news hounds from his hospital bed, Moshe Turgeman said the two went searching for the terrorist, and at one point apparently passed by the gunman without realizing it was him, noting the fluorescent vest he was wearing. People yelled from nearby buildings that the man in the vest was the attacker, leading them to double back after him.
"He shot me, he succeeded in hitting me in the hand," Turgeman said, "and [shot] another guy near me in the leg."
"The heroic Border Police officer just took him out in a few seconds. We got out miraculously," he added.
Footage showed the terrorist, wearing a fluorescent yellow vest, opening fire at people from within bushes behind a bus stop, then fleeing down a road, where he was shot by the Border Police officer.
The terrorist was identified by the Shin Bet security agency as 20-year-old Mohannad Muhammad Suleiman al-Mazra’a, from the nearby West Bank town of al-Azariya. The Shin Bet said al-Mazra’a, who worked as a cleaner at a local community center in Ma’ale Adumim, had a permit to work in West Bank settlements, but not in Israel proper.
In an unverified recording circulating on Paleostinian social media and attributed to al-Mazra’a, the speaker claims to not be affiliated with any faction. The terrorist allegedly recorded his "will" as a 95-second voice note before committing the shooting attack.
In the audio file, whose origin could not be independently verified, the man quoted several Koranic verses and hadiths (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), saying that if he dies "in the name of Allah" and the Israelis take his body, "it won’t matter." He demanded that when he is buried, no funeral be held for him and no name be engraved on his tombstone.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davy was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
the deputy mayor of Ma’ale Adumim said the West Bank settlement city would bar the entry of Paleostinian workers until further notice, following the terror attack.
"At the moment there is no entry of workers into the city until further notice. All construction sites in the city were immediately evacuated," Guy Yifrah said in a statement. 
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