(Jerusalem) Four Israeli soldiers were injured Sunday in a car-ramming attack at a bus stop near Lod in central Israel, the army, emergency services and police said.
The attack took place near the Tzrifin military base, the army said in a statement.
It was a “suspected terrorist attack,” a police spokesman said in a statement, adding that the attacker had been “neutralized.”
The man in the car-ramming attack is a Palestinian “originally from East Jerusalem,” according to police.
Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, said it treated and transported three injured people to Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, which said it admitted four injured people.
Two men “around 20 years old” are in serious condition, with numerous injuries, and one person is “slightly” injured, according to the MDA statement. One of the injured is in “critical condition,” according to the police.
The military announced later Sunday that “one officer and another soldier” “were seriously injured,” and two other soldiers were injured, one “moderately” and the other “lightly.”
“When we arrived at the scene, we saw a vehicle that had hit people at a bus stop, we immediately called for backup,” rescuers Michelle Rashkovski and Shneor Tsik said, according to a second MDA statement.
Images, some apparently filmed by witnesses, others broadcast by Israeli television, show what appears to be the scene of the attack, at the Nir Tzvi intersection, where many cars are stationary.
A white car can be seen on the edge of a bus shelter, and a video shows men shooting at the car.