Jerusalem bus stop attackers were Hamas members, militant group says – latest news
Israeli police said two Palestinians were behind the violence, but they were both killed by security forces and an armed civilian.
Hamas has claimed responsibility for the shooting at a bus stop in Jerusalem, in which three people were killed.
The militant group said it ‘came as a natural response to unprecedented crimes conducted by the occupation,’ citing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, 73, Chana Ifergan, 64, and Livia Dickman, 24, were all gunned down when two Palestinians opened fire in an attack on a main road towards the western edge of the city.
Wasserman was a judge in Israel’s rabbinical court system in Ashdod, while Ifergan worked at a school in the city of Beit Shemesh, the Times of Israel reports.
Surveillance camera footage that Metro.co.uk has decided not to publish shows the harrowing moment the two men jumped out of a car, firing indiscriminately.
Police said the attackers used an M-16 rifle and a handgun before they were killed by off-duty soldiers and another civilian.
This comes just hours after Israel and Hamas agreed to extend the ceasefire in Gaza minutes before it was due to expire.
