Five killed in shooting at Jerusalem bus stop – NBC Los Angeles

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 the occupied West Bank since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, six people were killed in Gaza from famine and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, health officials in the enclave said in an update Monday, bringing the death toll due to malnutrition in Gaza to 393, including 140 children. The world’s leading body on hunger declared famine in Gaza last month for the first time.

This comes as the Israeli military last week ordered Gaza city residents to evacuate as it pressed ahead with an offensive to seize control of the area.