Israeli police clash with protesters during the attacks of the Gaza war
Israeli police clashed with protesters in Jerusalem as demonstrators demanded that the government sign a contract to end the war with Hamas.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 8 (Reuters) – Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop outside Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what they described as a “terrorist attack,” one of the city’s most deadly “terrorist attacks” in the past few years.
Footage from the dashboard camera at the scene showed people fleeing near a bus that stopped on the side of the road when the shot rang. Another video showed a bus windshield and a window with a bullet hole.
“I suddenly heard the shot begin… I felt like I was running forever,” Estelle Lugasi, who was injured in the attack, told Israeli television from the hospital. “I thought I was going to die.”
The ambulance identified five victims: a 50-year-old man, a woman in her 50s and three men in their 30s. Eleven other people said they were injured. These include six people who were in serious condition with gunshot wounds.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saa later said the sixth person died and that the gunman was Palestinian from the West Bank of Israeli people.
Palestinian extremist group Hamas praised two Palestinian “resistance fighters” who said they had carried out the attack but stopped claiming responsibility. Another Palestinian extremist group, Islamic jihad, also praised the shooting.
Speaking at the scene of the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces were pursuing suspects who supported them.
Israeli police said two attackers arrived by car and fired at the bus stop at Lamot Junction. Several weapons, ammunition and knives used by the attackers were recovered at the scene, police said.
Reuters footage showed police presence in the Lamott area after the shooting. The ambulance said paramedics arriving at the scene reported several casualties lying on the road and sidewalk.
Israeli forces said they deployed soldiers to areas where they were supporting police in search of suspects. Soldiers also said they were operating in the Ramallah area on the West Bank to interrogate and “stoop terrorism.”
In October 2024, two Palestinians, armed with guns and the other with knife, killed seven in Tel Aviv. In November 2023, two Palestinian gunmen killed three at a bus stop in Jerusalem. Israeli security services said the attackers in the 2023 Jerusalem shootings were linked to Hamas.
