Israeli police have launched an investigation into a fatal shooting on Ibn Rushd Street in Jaffa on Thursday evening, in which a 17-year-old minor was killed and another 17-year-old was injured. The death was confirmed at Wolfson Medical Center. Police assess the background is criminal, according to Israeli media.
Just before 19:14 Thursday evening, a 17-year-old boy was killed and another 17-year-old wounded in a shooting on Ibn Rushd Street in Jaffa, according to Israeli police. The death was confirmed at Wolfson Medical Center. Police assess the background is criminal. This is the second fatal shooting in Jaffa in the same evening, and the third fatal incident in two days across central Israel.
At 19:14 Jerusalem, The Zioneer reported that a 16-year-old boy had been shot dead in Jaffa and a 17-year-old moderately wounded — initially identified as two motorcyclists, aged 15 and 17, with one in critical condition. Over the course of the hour, as corroboration from Magen David Adom and police solidified, the victim's age was confirmed at 16, and the second victim at 17. The new incident shares the same location, time window, and criminal suspicion, and is being treated as a separate attack.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Thursday, the killing of the 16-year-old occurred less than 24 hours after a 19-year-old woman was fatally shot in Ramla on Wednesday. Police have not announced arrests in either case. Earlier this week, on Monday, three people were lightly wounded in a separate Jaffa shooting that police also assessed as criminal, as The Zioneer reported.
It remains unclear whether the two Thursday evening shootings in Jaffa are linked, or whether any arrests have been made. No official statement from police on the second incident has been released beyond initial confirmation.
8 developments
- DevelopingThree lightly wounded in Jaffa shooting, police suspect criminal motive
- DevelopingYoung man critically wounded in shooting near Shfaram
- DevelopingTwo men shot in separate incidents in Lod and Jisr az-Zarqa hours after Jaffa murder
- DevelopingThree wounded, including 13-year-old in serious condition, in shooting in Qalansawe
Source and signal
- Internal intake