Palestinians in the West Bank brace for Israeli retaliation after six Israelis killed in Jerusalem shooting
Israeli police and emergency services at the scene of a shooting in occupied East Jerusalem on 8 September 2025
Qassam Muaddi reports in Mondoweiss on 8 September 2025:
Six Israelis were killed and 17 others were wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli media reported.
According to the Israeli Police, two Palestinian men in their twenties from the towns of Qatanna and Qebeibeh, northwest of Jerusalem, allegedly entered a bus at the Ramot Junction in Jerusalem and opened fire at passengers. The men then exited the bus and clashed with armed Israelis before being shot dead.
The Palestinian towns of Qatanna and Qebeibeh are part of the northwest Jerusalem villages, which Israel has isolated from the city through the separation wall, excluding the dense Palestinian population of the area from the Palestinian capital. It remains unclear how both shooters were able to enter Jerusalem.
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One of the men was later identified as a student at Birzeit University north of Ramallah, according to a statement by the Birzeit student movement.* The university announced that classes on campus would be suspended for the day.
At the site of the attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the media that Israel was going to “continue its mission in Gaza” and increase its operations in “Judea and Samaria,” the Zionist term for the occupied West Bank.