 day after he was attacked. An official of the United Nations removed from her post after a tweet. Hello and welcome to the I-24 Newsdesk. I'm Hamdus El-Hoods, coming to you live from Tel Aviv. Join us for these next 30 minutes as we take a look at your top stories. We begin with some breaking news out of Jerusalem where eight Israelis were hurt after a shooting just outside the old city. Two of those people are in critical condition. One is a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries. And the second, a man with gunshot wounds to the neck and head. Local authorities say a Palestinian man opened fire toward a bus on a road near the Western Wall and also at a nearby parking lot near the King David's Tomb. The alleged perpetrator reportedly waited for the bus's arrival and fired the shots while passengers were boarding before fleeing on foot. Now that prompted police to conduct a widespread manhunt throughout the night, but this morning, the man, a 26-year-old from East Jerusalem, has turned himself over to police. Let's take a listen to some people who were there last night. At 1.24 a.m., we're gonna call the mass shooting terrorist attack going on at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. When I got to the scene, I saw a few people lying on the floor in critical condition. Three of them were in critical condition and the other few that were lightly injured and we also had a baby and we took out of harm's way and all of them were transferred to the hospital for taking care. And I just stopped in the station of the grave of David, tomb of David. In this moment, started the shooting. Two people outside, I see, falling. Two inside. It was bleeding and people, everybody entered panic. Well, before we head to Jerusalem for a live report on this, let's bring in Rafael Ruchalmi, former senior intelligence officer for the Israeli Defense Forces and he joins me live in studio. Good morning to you, the suspect turning himself in this morning. How is this different than previous attacks where the police are out searching for the suspect? So here we have a special case. It's something halfway between the lone wolf unprepared, untrained lone wolf and the professional terrorist. This guy is in between because he had prepared his attack. He had planned it, it's not spontaneous. He was taken to the scene by a driver. Strangely enough, the driver didn't wait for him so after he committed his attack, he didn't have a way to escape. He was stuck in the Silvan neighborhood very close to the old city of Jerusalem and he was easily caught. He actually surrendered because the pressure was so much police, helicopters, drones, looking for him that he preferred to surrender instead of risking being shot in the pursuit. He had a weapon on him, a good functioning weapon, not very old weapon, but in a good state with ammunition. He had also a knife, so he was half, let's say, well-prepared, not enough to escape the police. Also, I think it's really a miracle because this gun that he had on him, even though it didn't seem to have much ammunition, whereas a nine-minute gun that normally each bullet could be lethal. So, of course, we have two persons who are now fighting for their lives, but it could have been worse, especially was shooting a very, very close range in the bus or at the people waiting nearby. So all in all, there is not a classical case of the lone wolf. You have here something a little more sophisticated, obviously not sophisticated enough, with a very, very fast reaction from the police, the Shabbat to intervene and to catch him. What kind of effort is exerted by police and authorities in these manhans? We've seen in the attacks in Tel Aviv earlier this year that there was a lot of police effort and exertion, but what exactly goes into them? So, you have first an alert that is sent at the same time to the police and the Shabbat. The Shabbat, they are checking if they have any info, prior info, something suspicious in the area, two, three days before. So, they just cross check everything they have on their desk, maybe to help find the suspect. The police immediately deploys with the Yaman, which is the special unit, commando unit of the police, immediately to the scene, with a maximum of is just as many as possible policemen. It depends on this time we were Saturday night, one and a half between Saturday night and Saturday night, one and a half a.m., not so many policemen available, so you have to call more, then you have to put a helicopter up in the air, you have to immediately go and look for cameras and take the movies, the films of the cameras that were in the area. So, it has to be very fast, a lot of things to do very quickly, and according to the time, there will be dozens or hundreds of policemen available, in this particular case, because of the tensions lately, and because of the Temple Mount area, there is more police presence there, and there are also border guards. We're looking at a picture now of the suspect, 26-year-old Amir Sirawi from East Jerusalem, the man accused of carrying out this attack on Israeli civilians, boarding a bus from the western wall. We were speaking earlier about the type of weapon or weapons that were used there, and very quickly, if you can talk to us, how someone like this, a young 26-year-old guy from East Jerusalem could acquire a weapon like this? Very easily, he can acquire, first of all, from the mafia, it can be either the Jewish mafia or the Arabic mafia, doesn't matter, there's a lot of business going on with illegal weapons in Israel. It's not very difficult, not even that expensive. The gun he has is probably, again, that cost him $200, $300, not more. Very easy to obtain. Then, of course, you have to be discreet. It seems that he prepared, I think he came at least once or twice before to the scene. He knew he'd chosen a specific hour, a specific time and a specific place. He was quite cold-blooded in that sense that he waited for the bus to stop. He waited for the ramp. There was an invalid that was going into the bus for the ramp to go down so the bus could not run away. Then he, after the first attack, he went a few dozen meters away to another place and shot again. So he showed a lot of cold blood, but, of course, it's a lot of tension on him and at five, six o'clock in the morning, he must have been very tense, very tired, and he gave in to the pressure that was put on by the police search. Great, Rafael Yerushalmi, former senior intelligence officer for the idea of joining me live in studio. Thank you. Let's head now for a live report to Jerusalem where our Jonathan Regive is standing by. Jonathan, good morning to you. What is the latest on this developing situation? The terrorist, as you mentioned, just about a little over an hour ago turned himself into police. We're speaking of 26-year-old Amir Sidawi from East Jerusalem, and when we speak of people from East Jerusalem, we have to understand they carry a blue ID and Israeli ID, meaning they have freedom of movement all over Israel, as opposed to people from the West Bank that have to go through checkpoints or find holes in the wall to infiltrate into Israel. East Jerusalemites have freedom of movement, so the terrorists, of course, had no problem arriving here. The scene where we are, where the attack took place, right behind me, you can see a bus station at the entrance to a place called David's Tomb. Right there is a bus station. The bus was stopping, and as you mentioned, the bus had to stop and open its doors and wait for some time. As a woman with a wheelchair was brought in, a perfect opportunity for the assailant who, as you again, as you mentioned in the studio, seemed to know what he's doing, seemed to know the place, opened fire, then approached a parking lot nearby and shot more vehicles and then fled the scene, turned himself just over an hour ago. And the results, you mentioned, at least eight people injured, two of them in critical condition. One of those in critical condition, a pregnant woman whose baby was delivered and the baby is also in severe condition. This is what we see here at the scene. I-24 News Defense Correspondent Jonathan Regev, live for us in Jerusalem. Thank you. We're taking a short break now. We'll be right back.