 a joint coordinated attack. The first at a bus station in Jerusalem, killing one individual. Authorities are saying that they're treating at least 18 others wounded, total from those two explosions. Three of those people are in serious to critical condition, and others likely injured. Israeli police investigating the coordinated terror attacks, the explosion at the bus stop was thought to be an explosive device that had been left in a bag. Israeli Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, will hold a security assessment at the security headquarters in Tel Aviv, afternoon, local time. Let's bring in our in-studio panel, Batia, 11th all political and international affairs correspondent, and Ariel Oceran, Middle East correspondent. Batia, give us an overview of these events this morning. And this is quite outstanding for an event like this to be taking place on such a scale like this. You have to remember Israelis are not used to bus explosions or bus bombings, so to speak. This is very reminiscent of the era of the Insafada. And so this was quite, you know, for any terror attack to happen so early in the morning and mass commute is considered to be quite a big deal. But for Israelis, this is really unexpected in terms of what considered or what happened this morning. Two different, as you mentioned, coordinated blasts happening at two different entrances to Jerusalem. One of them on the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. So this is just really an attack of enormous scale in terms of both what the actual attack was in its actual foundations, as well as what was going on in terms of now, obviously the wounded, the amount wounded. We're talking about peak hour traffic. You have to also remember this is peak hour in terms of commuters. And I find this quite ironic that just yesterday we had security officials, ambulance officials, all working on our train stations running a drill for a mass attack on a similar scale, but obviously much broader that, you know, so many comments are now coming out that perhaps, you know, why not do this on the bus system? Because as I mentioned, this is not something that's reminiscent of this current era in terms of what Israelis would have thought no expected. I want to bring in I-24 News Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran. Ariel, we have heard from Hamas this morning saying, well, designist occupation is paying the price today. For the crimes, it commits an aggression against our people and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. We have warned about this repeatedly. Our people will not remain silent in the face of this and the outrage at the Al-Aqsa. We'll explode and spread in all regions. We're just getting news of Palestinian Islamic jihad is praising these joint coordinated attacks as well as checkpoints in and around the Janine area have been closed. Walk us through what the Palestinian factions would think about an event like this. And the likelihood that an event like this was either a lone wolf or perhaps someone from these separate factions. Right, Hamda. So as to your first question, I think this is exactly what the Palestinian terror groups are looking for, hoping to see. They want to see such attacks that don't have the hallmark of an organized framework working together under the auspices of one of the known groups because that will lead to crackdown against said groups. And so they want to see such attacks, whether it's a lone wolf or some local organization in Jerusalem. The fact that the suspect in putting down these explosives is still at large is another cause for celebration there. And look, the response tying this to Al-Aqsa, this is something that we see almost on a daily basis after attacks against Israelis. Hamas, since last May, have been trying to tie all the events that happened to the backdrop of Al-Aqsa. They found that as perhaps the most effective catalyze, the most effective, perhaps, spark to send out, to encourage people to go out and carry out such attacks. And yes, to your second question, it remains unknown at the moment whether this was part of a geographic organization, whether the suspects come from East Jerusalem, elsewhere in the West Bank, whether they received any funding or instructions from terror groups. This is something that Israeli security authorities will be looking into, but at least immediately after this attack. This morning, less than two hours after the first bomb exploded into the bus terminal in Jerusalem, the Palestinian factions are already quick to praise the attack. Let's bring it back in about the 11th all political and international affairs correspondent. We are seeing an incoming government in Israel that is perhaps the most right wing in its history. Palestinians not so happy about that. Talk to us about what you've been hearing, what you've been reporting on when it comes to this. Could we expect perhaps an uptick when there are more policies against the Palestinians, both in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem? Could we see an uptick of things like this that we haven't seen since the early 2000s when both Israel and the Palestinians were engaged in an intifada? Right, and it's a good question. The reality is that we're talking about perceived policies because as it stands, the 37th government of Israel has not officially been put together nor sworn in. And just to touch on what Ariel was saying a few minutes ago, whether this was a lone wolf terror attack or whether this was some kind of very badly coordinated attack, which would have really appeased Hamas, the Palestinian-Islamic jihad. Both groups have mentioned that they have supported and are praising the attacks neither has taken responsibility as of yet. But the interesting thing is noting the timing and also noting the fact that without a stable government that has currently been put in place in the Knesset and working as a cabinet, as a unit, this could not have been a more prime time, if I can put it that way, for an attack to be carried out. Because at the moment, yesterday, while we were reporting at the Knesset, we saw the public security minister, Omer Birelev, going into meeting after meeting after meeting and someone made some kind of a comment within the Knesset that he's actually moving from office to office to pack up his belongings. But the reality and the truth to that kind of a snarky comment is that we have not yet sworn in a new government, we have not yet sworn in with all the political infighting that there is. There is no stable right wing government. And so, yes, from the perceived perception, if you will, from the terrorist point of view, from the perpetrator's point of view, this couldn't have been a better time to have carried out an attack in the sense of it being so surprising, of not having a government that's been put in place, but from the Israeli side of things, this is really quite worrying that, and it's probably gonna amp the pressure, if you wanna put it that way, for them to form a government to make sure that ministers, in particular, someone like a defense minister, a public security minister, which is likely to possibly go to Itamar Ben-Gvir from the Jewish power party is putting in place. I just wanna interrupt you, Batia. We're looking at Itamar Ben-Gvir on our screens now, live at that scene in Jerusalem. This is an individual who's been fighting for the public security ministerial position. Part of his campaign, he had a 10-point campaign where he really wanted to bring a hammer down when it came to law and order in the state of Israel. Some of those things included changing the rules of the game for the IDF, changing the rules of engagement. Should he become the public security minister? What kind of changes can we expect from him? I think should is perhaps the wrong way to formulate it. At the end of the day, this is what the Israeli public has put through. They want to see a stable and obviously right to more right-wing government on the political spectrum. What's interesting with these images coming out is noting that this is the first incoming, possibly incoming minister on the 37th government that is actually at the scene of attack. And that should be incredibly evident of the type of policies, of the type of possibly ministerial portfolio that he wants to hold. As you mentioned, he's been pushing, vying in fact for this position. It's caused negotiations over the last couple of days to sort of fall apart, because not only does he want to have control over the police, which is what the public security minister will have, but he also wants to extend that portfolio to the periphery regions as well, to the Negev, to the Galil. So he's really all about tightening in, as you mentioned, bringing the hammer down on security. It's likely that with having such a far-right minister in government and in positions like this, that we could also see an uptick from the other side in terms of Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic jihad, putting out warnings and saying, we're warning you about this kind of thing, but it's likely to go either way. 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That means to stop the payments to the Palestinian authority that supports their, to those who murder Jews. That means to find out where the terrorist came from, whether it was from within Israeli territory or from the West Bank, to impose a curfew, to go home by home, to look for weapons, to bring back deterrents. I'm not gonna talk about politics, but I will say one thing. We must form a government as fast as possible. The terror doesn't wait. He was asked what the police commissioner said, so he said Ben-Veer is saying, I heard what the commissioner says. I will say that I trust security forces from here. I'm going to the hospitals to visit the wounded, and I'm saying clearly, we have to support our soldiers, our police officers, and return to pinpoint assassinations, targeted assassinations, to go back to controlling Israel, to keeping terror at bay. Organized terror is something that we can deal with and we must deal with. I'm saying as clearly as possible, we need to take a price from terrorists. We can do it very simply, very practically. We have to close the security prisons in Israel, not to allow free access there. We have to give the minimum according to law, but anything else, no. We can be terror. We can go back to ruling this country. I strengthen the hand of all police officers and security forces here, but the government's policy needs to change. And that's why I want to be the Interior Defense Minister. We need to take a price from terror. You just heard from far-right leader and internationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir live at the scene there from one of the two attacks in Jerusalem this morning. I'm going to bring back in our panel in just a second, but let's head to Jerusalem now. We're volunteer medical help. The United Hatsala Spokesperson Rafael Poch is live for us. Good morning to you. Thank you so much for joining us on the program. Talk to us a little bit about the medical assessment now from the injuries. How many are seriously wounded? We do understand there has been one death so far. Please give us your assessment. Our volunteers received the alert. Actually, even before they received the alert, some of our volunteers were directly in the area where the explosions took place. Unfortunately, I just found out that one of our volunteers was actually injured in one of the explosions. The injuries that they saw, they automatically called dispatch, alerted them to what was going on, and treated in one explosion. There were five people were physically injured. One was in critical condition. I understand they've passed away, and then there's another who was in serious condition and three others were in light to moderate condition. In the second location in the remote junction, there were three people were injured. In both locations, we also treated people for emotional and psychological shock. We stabilized them at the location and then sent them out for continuing treatment as well in the hospital. Talk to us about what kind of injuries we're seeing. Are we seeing it from shrapnel? Are we seeing it from the bus parts? Talk to us about what these people are experiencing who are in these critical stages. Well, some of the injuries were actually blast injuries from the explosive device going off itself. Those were people closest to the area and obviously the ones were more seriously injured. Then there's secondary sphere of injury, which was from shrapnel, from pieces of vehicles that were flying due to the response or as a result of the explosion. Then of course there were those who were suffering psychological injuries from witnessing the injury itself and we treated those in the field as well. This is a very harrowing incident. It took place just after seven o'clock in the morning when everyone's on their way to work going on their normal day and it completely disrupts the lives obviously of everyone involved and everyone who's trying to go about their daily lives injuries from itself. Something that's unfortunate we haven't seen for a very long time and hope does not continue. The volunteer medical help united Hatsala Spokesperson Rafael Porch joining us live from Jerusalem. Thank you. Let's bring in Martin Himmel now political and security analyst. You just heard from Itamar Benvir they're live at the scene saying that Israel needs to break and that they need to charge a heavy price to terrorists pinpointing assassinations. Talk to us a little bit about what he means by pinpointed assassinations. Well first of all I must say he's using the crudest form of political maneuvers to deal with a very complex situation. He's providing simplistic superficial very narrow focused almost naive approaches to try to solve an incredibly complex problem. Yes, let's get the superpower of Israel to go assassinate a few people and we're going to bring peace here. Well that's been tried very extensively and not only has it been tried very extensively and it's continued to be used very extensively it also has big international reprifications Israel doesn't live in a vacuum it lives with other countries it has to deal with Arab countries in the Gulf Egypt it has to deal with issues of its policy in the United States in Europe. It's quite simple to coincide go assassinate a few guys we'll make them really scared it's going to stop it that's not going to stop it it's been tried before. So Bank of Europe is using very simple political solutions that an eager population wants to hear to provide the answers or he's going to be facing a much more complex situation. Martin Himmel a political and security analyst joining us live this morning. Thank you. I want to bring back in our in studio panel I-24 News Middle East correspondent Aria Osaran and I-24 News political and international affairs correspondent Bhatia Leventhal. Bhatia you've been covering Israeli politics this election season quite extensively. Talk about these comments from Itamar Ben Gvir stopping payments to the authority forming a government as quickly as possible just some of the things he's been alluding to these government negotiations have been stalled as of now but yesterday Benjamin Netanyahu making some headway in these talks can a situation like this speed up that process. Absolutely absolutely in fact it's quite notable that possibly what would have been the motive or the purpose behind such an attack is now actually going to tell the negotiation talks into forming a government as we heard Itamar Ben Gvir saying it's imperative that something like this gets formed as soon as possible so that people in these ministries can start imposing policies whether they are on you know the more far right of the spectrum or the right that's not the conversation now the conversation is that they are currently no policies to be put forward because there's currently no government and I think you know the common saying that actions speak louder than words and this speaks volumes the fact that Netanyahu Ben Gvir who is poised to potentially take up the public security ministry is the first on the scene from a potential new government as opposed to the current public security minister Omer Baralev speaks volumes and to a lot of the supporters that voted him into a lot of the incoming coalition the fact that there's boots on the ground in a sense and that he's there assessing the situation and saying you know whatever the policies are it doesn't matter how far right on the spectrum they are implementing we need to start doing this this and this really does touch on the fact that a government needs to be formed it's likely to propel the negotiations what will be interesting in obviously the coming moments is to see how many more ministers from both the current outgoing ministration will end up being there as well as of the incoming ministration will also be there what's also interesting to note is that the current defense minister Benny Gantz is likely closing quite a few areas in the next week which I'm sure Ariel can touch on as well and Ariel I want to bring you in here Isomar Benger saying they need to stop payments to the Palestinian Authority talk to us about what kind of aid the Palestinian Authority gets from Israel well this isn't much about the aid it's more Israeli taxpayer money goes to the Palestinian Authority as part of its of its day to day but even before the attack Ben Gavril tweeted that there needs to be a forceful arm against terror already indicating of the policies that need to go on there and in fact the current interior defense minister Omar Balafi is on the way there so there might be an interesting face to face over there but as to what this would mean to the relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority these relations are going on on the bare minimum of pretty much the basics of security cooperation I think a good example could be I just want to interrupt you for a second reports of three Palestinian suspects who carrying out these attacks were arrested in the neighborhood of Kitayat Moshe you are from Jerusalem you grew up there talk to us a little bit about where the vicinity is of this how large the city is how they are able to get around very quickly I mean in fact because all three scenes the first bombing scene the second bombing scene and the neighborhood of Kitayat Moshe they are all in pretty close proximity to one another that also explains the only half hour between first and second bombing taking place and Israeli security forces police and military have been searching throughout the entire area from bus stop to bus stop searching for explosives in his statements to the press at the scene the police commissioner even called on bus drivers to to examine their buses to check for any kinds of bombs I think that shows the level of desperation that Israeli security forces find themselves in this morning there was no pinpoint alert for this there was no warning that such an attack was about to be taken carried out imminently and so it finds Israeli security forces trying to find out what's going on on the fly currently there these are initial reports of three suspects arrested but the way Israeli security forces are talking about the perpetrators of this attack they're talking about a cell not one individual or two but a cell and that's how they're treating it and so this would also increase the scope of the searches of the investigation and I doubt it will end this morning in the neighborhoods of Jerusalem we should expect some activity perhaps in east Jerusalem as well and again this comes at the bag drop of a very tense night in the west bank where our men in in Jeanine holding the body of an Israeli teen who was killed in a car accident in Jeanine he went to Jeanine to try and fix his car was injured in a car accident there gunman kidnapped his body from the hospital disconnected him from the machines and are have been holding him for a few hours now so that's another key point of interest for Israel this morning Batia Levittal and Ariel Oceran joining me live in studio on the breaking news two blasts in Jerusalem and what authorities are calling a coordinated joint effort this is I-24 news be sure to stay with us all day long for constant 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