Palestinian gunmen kill 6 people in an attack on the Jerusalem bus station

Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus station in northern Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people and wounding several others, according to officials. The attack targeted a position in part of Jerusalem that Israel seized in the 1967 war and was later annexed in a move that was not recognized by the United Nations and many individual countries. The bus station is located at the crowded Ramot intersection on Yigal Street, which leads to East Jerusalem.

The Israeli emergency service, MDA, said that five people were killed in the shooting attack, but Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sar, later spoke during a visit to Hungary, was killed by six people and that a pregnant woman was among the wounded. The police said that two militants were also killed.

MDA said earlier that seven other people were left in Serious conditionBut it was not clear whether this number had changed with the number of deaths from four to the six to the six he announced.

The dead included a man “about 50 years old and three men between the age of 30,” according to a statement issued by MDA, which added that he was providing medical treatment for many wounded.

A video of the scene showed dozens of people fleeing the shooting, running fixed cars at the crowded intersection.

The Israeli media reported that the attackers took a bus full of passengers and opened fire.

“A security and civil officer responded to the scene immediately, and he returned fire, and alone the attackers,” the police said in a statement.

“A painful and difficult morning. Innocent civilians, women, men and children were killed and brutally wounded in a cold blood on a bus in Jerusalem by the evil and evil terrorists,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog He said in a social media post. “In the face of this barbarism, we have seen unusual actions from the championship that prevented more innocent lives. This horrific attack reminds us once again that we are fighting absolute evil. The world must understand what we face, and that terrorism will never defeat us.”

His office said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the attack theater on Monday, was holding a meeting to assess the situation after the shooting.

In a statement shared by his office, Netanyahu said: “We are following up and the villages from which the terrorists came. We will reach everyone who helped them, and those who sent them, and we will take more cruel measures.”
“We are in a widespread war-war against terrorism on multiple fronts.”

Hamas, the well -known terrorist organization between the United States and the Israeli that was In a state of war with Israel in Gaza Nearly two years ago, he praised the shooting, saying it was implemented by two Palestinian militants.

“We confirm that this process is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and the genocide it waged against our people,” Hamas said in a statement.

The shooting was one of the bloody incidents of its kind since the war in Gaza ignited the terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, which led to the death of more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli officials. Hamas and its allies also acquired 251 Israelis as hostages during the attack, and about 50 of them remained in Gaza, and 20 of them are still alive, according to Netanyahu.

Israel’s resounding attack in Gaza At least 64,522 PalestiniansMost of them are civilians, according to the numbers provided by the Ministry of Health in Gaza in Hamas, which the United Nations considers the most reliable information available.

The Gaza City process is expanding in Israel

On Saturday, the Israel Army called on the Palestinians in Gaza City, for a long period of the largest population center in the pocket, to move to a humanitarian area that it set in the south, as it is Its military operations expanded In preparation for the seizure of the city afflicted with famine.

Parts of the city, the home of nearly a million people, are already “red areas”, where the evacuation orders were issued before the expected fighting.

Relief groups have repeatedly warned that the widespread evacuation of Gaza City would exacerbate The terrible humanitarian crisis there. The Palestinians have been uprooted and displaced several times during the war, which lasted nearly two years in Gaza, and humanitarian groups warned that many might not be able to leave.

Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adri wrote in a social media position that the army announced the Moghbassi-a temporary tent camp in southern Gaza-a humanitarian area and urged everyone in Gaza City, which the army called rational Hamas, to leave. The army said that civilians can travel in cars on a specific road without searching.

Israeli forces struck humanitarian areas throughout the war, Including MoulosiWhich announced a safe area for months.

Hamas interacts with a new suggestion for a ceasefire in the United States

The attack on Monday, Hamas said it was setting up a new ceasefire proposal in the United States to end the war in Gaza, which was delivered on Sunday. On Sunday, President Trump warned in a post on social media, without providing any details about the last proposal, that a “last opportunity” in Hamas.

“Everyone wants hostages at home. Everyone wants this war to end! The Israelis accepted my spirituality. It is time to accept Hamas too,” said Mr. Trump on his social network. “Hamas has warned of the consequences of not accepting. This is my last warning, there will be no other warning!”

According to what was reported, the recent proposal calls for the immediate return of all the remaining Israeli hostages, alive and death, on the first day of the ceasefire, and on this point negotiations will begin to end the war.

Israeli Foreign Minister said on Monday that Israel accepted the proposal of Mr. Trump.

Hamas said, in its own statement, that it will remain involved with the negotiators, but it repeated its long position that it will only agree to a ceasefire, which included a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and ended the war.

Hamas said it “confirms the preparation for sitting immediately at the negotiating table to discuss the release of all prisoners in exchange for a clear announcement of the end of the war, the complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the formation of a committee of independent Palestinians to manage the Gaza Strip and start its work immediately.”