PALESTINIAN attackers opened fire on people at a bus stop during the morning rush hour in Jerusalem today, killing six people and wounding another 12, according to Israeli officials.

An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers, said police, who later arrested a third person in connection with the shooting.

Footage of the attack showed dozens of people fleeing from the bus stop at a busy intersection. The windscreen of a bus was riddled with bullet holes and belongings were scattered across the street.

Monday’s shooting, at a major intersection, with a road leading to Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, was the deadliest in Israel since October 2024.

Paramedics who responded to the chaotic scene said broken glass covered the area and people wounded lay unconscious on the road and a pavement near the bus stop.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was supposed to be in court on Monday for his ongoing corruption trial, which was delayed by the incident, warned from the scene that Israel is “fighting a war on multiple fronts, including Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel.”

Hamas hailed the attack without claiming responsibility, calling it a “natural response to the occupation’s crimes against our people.”

The attack came a day after a highly rare judgement by Israel’s Supreme Court, which ruled that the Israeli government has deprived Palestinian detainees of even a minimum subsistence diet and ordered authorities to increase the amount and improve the quality of food served to deprived Palestinian inmates.

Although it’s the job of the Supreme Court to advise the government of the legality of its policies, the Israeli judiciary has seldom taken issue with its actions in the 23-month Israeli war on Gaza.

The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that the Israeli government had a legal duty to provide Palestinian prisoners with three meals a day to ensure “a basic level of existence” and ordered authorities to fulfil that obligation.

The court also accepted the petition filed last year by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Israeli rights group Gisha, that the government’s deliberate restriction of prisoners’ food in Israeli detention facilities has caused Palestinians to suffer malnutrition and starvation during the Israel-Gaza war.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the prison system, lashed out at the court ruling Sunday, asking the judges: “Are you from Israel?”

He vowed the policy of providing prisoners with “the most minimal conditions stipulated by law” would continue unchanged.