At least six people were killed and 12 others were injured Shooting According to Israeli police, emergency rescue services and local hospitals, on Monday morning at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem.
The attackers, who had said that the Palestinians, were allegedly shot dead by an Israeli soldier and a citizen at the scene.
Police said the attackers set fire to the people waiting at the bus stop during the morning crowd at a busy intersection.
Paramedics arrived in a chaotic scene, injuring the victims and fainted on the road and pavement, covered in a broken glass. The windshield of a bus at the scene was filled with bullet holes and people’s goods were scattered in the area.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached the spot after two hours and promised to find the criminals of the attack.
“We are in war, there is a deep war against terrorism on many fronts,” he said.
According to a translation provided by Netanyahu by his office, “We are now engaged in chasing and closing villages from whom the killers came.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog insisted on “painful and difficult dawn”.
He said, “Innocent civilians, women, men and children were brutally murdered and were injured in cold blood in a bus in Jerusalem.”
He also postponed “extraordinary acts of valor, which stopped even more loss of innocent life.”
“This shocking attack once again reminds us that we are fighting complete evil,” said Herzog. “The world must understand what we are doing, and that terror will never beat us.”
Hamas did not claim credit, but praised the attack as “natural reaction to the crimes of occupation against our people”.
On Sunday, President Trump said that “I think we are going to make a deal on Gaza very soon.”
Returning to Andrews, a joint base from a trip to New York, Trump said, “We are working on a solution that may probably be very good.”
Trump has owned Gaza to America and converted it into a beach resort, with plans that criticize the Palestinians permanently displaced.
Associated Press contributed.
