2 settlers wounded in al-Quds stabbing operation, one critical
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Israeli media reports that two people were wounded in a stabbing at the illegal Israeli settlement of Kibbutz Tzova.
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Israeli ZAKA rescue and recovery personnel clean bloodstains at the scene of a shooting operation at a bus stop in occupied al-Quds, Monday, September 8, 2025. (AP)
Israeli media reported Friday that two people were wounded in a stabbing attack at Kibbutz Tzova, west of occupied al-Quds. According to Channel 14, the incident occurred inside a hotel, leaving one person in critical condition and another moderately hurt.
Israeli forces said the man suspected of carrying out the operation was detained, identified as a young man from the Shuafat neighborhood, and that the motive for the attack was still under investigation.
Earlier in the week, seven settlers were killed and at least 21 others were injured, six of them critically, in a separate shooting at the Ramot junction in al-Quds.
'Black Monday'
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.
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."
