Al-Quds shooting: 7 settlers killed, several critically injured
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Attackers opened fire on a bus before being shot dead, Israeli police say.
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Israeli police and rescue teams respond at the scene of a shooting attack where several settlers were killed and injured in occupied al-Quds, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025 (AP)
Seven settlers were killed and at least 21 others were injured in a shooting operation at the Ramot Junction in occupied al-Quds, Israeli media reported. Among the injured, five are said to be in a critical condition.
Reports indicated that the Palestinians who carried out the operation boarded a bus at the Ramot junction and opened fire on the passengers. Many described the unfolding events as a "Black Monday" unleashed on "Israel".
One of the shooters was reportedly disguised as a police officer, as he boarded a bus and started shooting from point-blank range, Israeli media reported, citing eye-witnesses.
A makeshift “Carlo” submachine gun and a pistol were used in the operation, images from the scene revealed.
The shooters' identities remain unidentified, yet Israeli media claimed they came from the towns of al-Qubayba and Qatnah, prior to the operation.
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Reports noted that the shooters took advantage of a traffic jam at the junction, boarding a bus and shooting Israeli settlers before being shot dead.
Meanwhile, Israeli police said they were examining a suspicious object left at the scene of the operation, adding that all roads leading to al-Quds have been blocked.
This operation comes amid heightening Israeli violence in the West Bank, launching raid campaigns across Palestinian towns and villages of the West Bank and its refugee camps, arresting Palestinian youths with no formal charges, arbitrarily killing residents, and demolishing homes.
Shooting operation 'natural response' to Israeli crimes: Resistance factions
Hamas said in a statement that the operation is "a clear message that the schemes of the occupation in Gaza and the desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque will not pass without punishment," noting that it comes as "a natural response to the ongoing war of extermination against our people."
The statement added that the occupation's strategies and its false hopes of eliminating the resistance or forcibly relocating the Palestinian population would be overcome by their steadfastness, urging Palestinians throughout the West Bank to intensify their confrontations with both the Israeli military and settlers as an act of support for Gaza, al-Quds, and sacred sites.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad
For its part, the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine affirmed that this operation represents "a natural response to the escalating criminal policies of the Zionist entity and to the displacement and systematic destruction in Gaza, the West Bank, and the Palestinian interior of 1948, in addition to the repressive practices of the occupation and the policy of starvation in prisons."
In the same context, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, stated that the operation "comes as a natural and legitimate response to the ongoing crimes committed by the Israeli enemy against the Palestinian people across the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied al-Quds."
Mujahideen Movement
The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement stated that the operation was "a message written in fire from the free people of Palestine in response to Zionist aggression against al-Quds and the West Bank and the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip."
The statement added that the operation represented a powerful blow to the enemy's security apparatus and reflected the state of growing uprising across Palestine, while calling on Resistance fighters to intensify their precision strikes against the occupation and its settler militias.
