Surveillance footage showed a dense crowd. Several dozen people were waiting at a bus stop for line 62, in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, on Monday, September 8, shortly after 10 am, when two armed men opened fire on the crowd, made up largely of residents from Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, causing panic. They then fired on people inside a bus. The toll was heavy: Six were killed and eight wounded, five of them seriously. Police described the attack as "terrorist." Authorities said the two assailants, who were killed by a soldier and an armed civilian, came from villages near Ramallah, under Palestinian Authority control. The army then surrounded the area from which they originated.

The attack was a stark reminder to Israelis that the West Bank remains one of the "seven fronts" in the war, as defined by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, since the October 7, 2023, attack, alongside Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthi forces in Yemen, militias in Iraq and Syria. This is a largely invisible conflict, even though it has claimed the lives of 987 Palestinians killed by the army or settlers in the West Bank over the past 23 months, according to updated figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The six killed in the attack add to the 52 Israelis killed since October 2023, according to a UN count, which ended in late July. "We are in an intense war against terrorism on several fronts," Netanyahu said as he visited the scene of the attack.

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