While the truce was extended in the Gaza Strip, an attack hit West Jerusalem this morning.
Three people were killed Thursday morning and six others injured, three of them seriously, in a gun attack on a bus stop in west Jerusalem, according to a new report from the Israeli police.
This attack, carried out according to the police by “two residents of East Jerusalem” occupied and annexed by Israel, comes as the truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip was renewed at the last minute on Thursday morning for a seventh day.
“Two terrorists who came by car and armed one with an M-16 and the other with a pistol” opened fire around 7:40 a.m. (0540 GMT), Jerusalem Police Director Doron Torgeman told the press at the scene of the attack.
The Magen David Adom (Mada), the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, identified one of the three dead as “a young woman of 24 years old”.
The two attackers “were killed quickly by two off-duty soldiers and a civilian who shot at them,” police said in a statement.
Footage posted online shows two men getting out of a white car and opening fire before being shot dead.
Two weeks ago, an Israeli soldier was killed and five members of the Israeli security forces injured in an attack on a checkpoint separating Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank, an attack claimed by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. The three attackers were shot dead.
Additional sources • AP, AFP