6 dead in deadly terrorist attack at Jerusalem bus stop after Palestinian gunmen open fire

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the city in years. 

Footage from a dashboard camera shows the moment people flee in terror from the bus stop as shots rang out, with the aftermath revealing several bullet holes through the vehicle’s windscreen. 

“Suddenly I hear the shots starting… I felt like I was running for an eternity,” Ester Lugasi, who was injured in the attack, told Israeli TV from a hospital. “I thought I was going to die.” 

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The two gunmen, who have yet to be publicly named, arrived at Ramot Junction by car and opened fire at people waiting at the bus stop, Israeli police said.

The terrorists then went on to board the bus to continue the bloody rampage before they were killed by police at the scene.  

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The victims were described as a 50-year-old man, a woman in her fifties and three men in their thirties. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar later confirmed that a sixth person had died from the shooting. 

Israeli ambulance services said 11 people were also injured in the onslaught, including six people who were listed in serious condition. 

Saar said that the gunmen were Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank. 

The shooting was met with praise from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist groups, who touted the gunmen as “resistance fighters.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violence and said police were working to find the people who aided the gunman in the terror attack. 

“We will catch everyone who helped them, everyone who sent them,” Netanyahu said in a statement.

The prime minister added that Israel would remain committed to combating terrorism at home and abroad. 

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“We are fighting terrorism — the terrorist regime of the Houthi, Iran that backs everyone, in Gaza, Lebanon, Hezbollah, in all sectors,” he said. “We are not letting up and we will not let up.

The Israeli military said it has now deployed soldiers in the Ramallah areas of the West Bank to conduct raids and interrogations to “thwart terrorism.” 

Monday’s massacre played out similarly to the November 2023 shooting in Jerusalem, where two Palestinian gunmen killed three people at a bus stop. 

Terror attacks have grown more frequent in large Israeli cities following the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, which saw Hamas and allied Palestinian terror cells kill more than 1,200 people and kidnap another 251. 

With Post wires