{"id":51279,"date":"2025-09-08T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51279\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:26:07","slug":"spaniard-among-six-killed-in-jerusalem-bus-stop-shooting-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51279\/","title":{"rendered":"Spaniard among six killed in Jerusalem bus stop shooting \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least six people were killed and more than 20 wounded, five in serious condition, when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at the busy Ramot junction in north Jerusalem<\/a> on Monday morning, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

All of the victims were at a bus stop or on a bus packed with passengers that was stuck in a morning traffic jam.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was inside the bus,\u201d said eyewitness Malka Cohen. \u201cIt was full of people… When the doors opened, we got out, and terrorists came and shot like crazy. I was lucky that I was at the back door, and ran away. The terrorists came from the front. There were shots in my ears. It was terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video footage showed terrified bus passengers fleeing the scene along with car drivers and passengers stuck in the traffic jam. A soldier and a civilian opened fire, killing the two assailants, who police said were West Bank <\/a>Palestinians. <\/p>\n

Both Hamas<\/a> and Islamic Jihad praised the two Palestinian \u201cresistance fighters\u201d who carried out the attack, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Eight Israelis injured in shooting attack in Jerusalem\u2019s Old CityOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Authority<\/a> presidency, in contrast, condemned the attack. \u201cThe presidency affirms its stance in rejecting and condemning any harm to Palestinian and Israeli civilians, and rejects all forms of violence, regardless of their source,\u201d the president\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The Spanish government has confirmed that a Spanish citizen was among the six people killed in the east Jerusalem attack.<\/p>\n

Paramedic Niv Taib, who arrived at the scene, described the destruction. \u201cWe saw people lying unconscious on the side of the road and the pavement near a bus stop,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a lot of destruction at the scene, shattered glass on the floor and a lot of commotion.\u201d <\/p>\n

The dead, five men and a woman, all civilians, were from the ultra-Orthodox community.<\/p>\n

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF)<\/a> sent reinforcements to the Ramallah area of the West Bank, close to where the attack took place and from which the assailants are said to have travelled.<\/p>\n

President Yitzhak Herzog condemned the shooting. \u201cThis shocking attack reminds us once again that we are fighting absolute evil,\u201d he wrote in a statement. \u201cThe world must understand what we are up against, and that terror will never defeat us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking at the scene of the shooting, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu<\/a> said the attack was one front of many. <\/p>\n

\u201cA mighty war against terror is taking place on all fronts. The fighting continues in the Gaza Strip. Israel<\/a> will destroy Hamas as we promised and free our hostages \u2013 all of our hostages,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, the war also continues in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria, where we have acted with great force,\u201d he said, using the biblical term for the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, at the scene of the attack, accused High Court judges of encouraging terror to \u201craise its head\u201d, citing a ruling on Sunday that deemed Israel was not properly feeding Palestinian security prisoners. <\/p>\n

His Otzma Yehudit party said it will make a renewed push for the death penalty for terrorists in response to Monday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n

Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the far-right Religious Zionist party, said the West Bank Palestinian villages from which the gunmen came should be \u201cflattened\u201d, similarly to areas of Gaza conquered by the IDF.<\/p>\n

The European Union condemned the shooting, saying it \u201cunderscored the urgent need for a ceasefire\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe condemn this attack, as we condemn all loss of lives,\u201d European Union spokesperson Anouar El Anouni said. \u201cWe call for de-escalation, and this shows how necessary and critical a ceasefire is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people were killed and more than 20 wounded, five in serious condition, when two Palestinian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,3761,69,6,71,6220,11,12,15,16,5,7825,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-51279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-gaza-strip","13":"tag-hamas","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-israel-defence-forces","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-palestinian-authority","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}