Shooting attack at Jerusalem bus stop kills 6 people

Attackers opened discharge at a jalopy block at a occupy product in north Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and injuring about a dozen people, according to Israeli police and emergency rescue services.

Police said the attackers shot people waiting at a bus stop, while Israeli media reported the attackers also boarded a crowded bus and opened fire inside.

A security officer and a civilian who were at the scene shot and killed the attackers, police said.  

The shooting took place at a major intersection at the northern entrance to Jerusalem, on a road that leads to Jewish settlements located in east Jerusalem.

Footage of the attack showed dozens of people fleeing from a bus stop at the busy intersection during the morning rush hour. Paramedics who responded to the scene said the area was chaotic and covered in broken glass, with people wounded and lying unconscious on the road and a sidewalk near the bus stop.  

Israel's ambulance service identified five of the victims as a 50-year-old man, a woman in her 50s and three men in their 30s.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said later that a sixth person had died and that the gunmen were Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Hundreds of security forces arrived at the scene to search for additional attackers or explosives that could have been planted around the area. The Israeli military said it is encircling Palestinian villages on the outskirts of the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah as it steps up defence in response to the attack.

Hamas in a statement called the attack a "natural response to the occupation's crimes against our people."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the scene of the attack and was seen on video speaking to first responders.

He warned that Israel is "fighting a war on multiple fronts," including Gaza, the West Bank and Israel. Netanyahu also praised the soldier who killed the attacker, who was from a newly formed unit for ultra-Orthodox soldiers.

The nearly two-year war in Gaza has sparked a surge of violence in both the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Israel. 

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Data from the UN's humanitarian office says at least 49 Israelis were killed by Palestinians in Israel or the West Bank between the start of the war and July 2025. In that time, Israeli forces and civilians killed at least 968 Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank.

While there have been scattered attacks over the past months in Israel, the last deadly mass shooting attack was in October 2024, when two Palestinians from the West Bank opened fire on a major boulevard and light rail station in the Tel Aviv area, killing seven people and leaving many others wounded. Hamas's military wing claimed responsibility for that attack.

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