A security personnel stands near the scene where a suspected shooting attack took place at the outskirts of Jerusalem on Sept. 8, 2025.
Ammar Awad | Reuters
Two gunmen opened fire at a Jerusalem bus stop on Monday, killing five people and critically injuring seven others, emergency services said.
Police said the shooters, who had been “neutralized,” had attacked at a bus stop, while some Israeli media reported they also boarded a crowded bus and opened fire inside.
Hamas hailed the attack, which happened at an important intersection at the northern entrance to Jerusalem on a road that leads to Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, as “heroic” but did not claim responsibility.
One woman and four men were killed, a spokesperson for Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency service, said in a statement. Seven were seriously wounded. Several others suffered minor injuries from shattered glass.
Paramedics described a chaotic scene.
“We saw victims lying on the sides of the road and on the sidewalk near the bus stop, some unconscious,” MDA paramedic Nadav Taieb said in a statement.
“There was extensive destruction, broken glass on the ground, and a chaotic scene.”
Israeli police said the victims were waiting at the bus stop when the gunmen open fired. A soldier and several civilians there “engaged the attackers and returned fire,” the police said in a statement, adding the gunmen were confirmed dead at the scene.
There has been a surge in violence in both Israel and occupied West Bank since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip.
