2023 Givat Shaul shooting

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On 30 November 2023, two Palestinian gunmen killed three and wounded 16 Israeli civilians[1] at a bus stop on the Givat Shaul Interchange in Jerusalem during the ceasefire of the Israel–Hamas war.

[1][2] The Givat Shaul neighborhood, located in the western part of the city, is one of the primary entrances to Jerusalem, and has been a target of attacks in the past.

[7][8] As IDF soldiers assumed he was an attacker, Haaretz stated Castleman received no medical assistance after being shot.

[7] Initial reports named the three dead by the attackers as 73-year-old rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 67-year-old Chana Ifergan, and 24-year-old Livia Dickman.

[3] A fourth individual Yuval Doron Castleman was shot and killed by the responding IDF soldiers.

[3] The family of Yuval Doron Castleman, the bystander who was mistakenly shot by IDF soldiers, labeled his death as an "execution" and called for a thorough investigation.