Palestinian attackers opened fire on people at a bus stop during the morning rush hour in Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding another 12, according to Israeli officials.
An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers, police said. The windshield of a bus was riddled with bullet holes and belongings were scattered across the street.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on at the scene where a suspected shooting attack took place at the outskirts of Jerusalem. (Ammar Awad/Reuters)Footage of the attack showed dozens of people fleeing from a bus stop at the busy intersection at the northern entrance to Jerusalem, on a road that leads to Jewish settlements located in east Jerusalem. 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 police and rescue teams responded to the scene. The ambulance service said four men and one woman were killed. (Mahmoud Illean/The Associated Press)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.
WATCH l Gaza strikes send war-weary Palestinians fleeing: Israel's military calls residential buildings super targets, chosen because they say they house Hamas infrastructure, which Hamas denies, and because they’re big enough to send an unmistakable message to civilians: get out, before the operation expands.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.