Israeli security forces gather by a body next to a bus at the Ramot road junction in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on September 8, 2025. AFP
The death toll from the incident was updated to six after Israeli emergency service said earlier there were five people dead in the shooting attack.
The two gunmen were also killed at the scene, the Israeli police said.
It police also arrested a resident of East Jerusalem suspected of smuggling the two gunmen into the occupied Palestinian territory.
Earlier, Tel Aviv said seven other people were in serious condition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the site of the attack later, declaring that Israeli troops would encircle and pursue the villages from which the gunmen came.
Netanyahu also held a meeting to assess the situation after the shooting, his office said.
Palestinian resistance group Hamas praised the attack, saying it was carried out by two Palestinian fighters.
"We affirm that this operation is a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and the genocide it is waging against our people," Hamas said in a statement.
Two weeks ago, Israel has given final approval for a new settlement project that would effectively cut off the occupied West Bank from East Jerusalem and divide the territory in two.
Construction in the E1 area has been frozen for two decades amid fierce international opposition.
Critics warn it would put an end for a viable, contiguous Palestinian state.
Extremist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who unveiled the colonial plans, said the idea of a Palestinian state was "being erased".
Israel has built about 160 settlements housing 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East war and successive Israeli governments have allowed settlements to grow since.
The Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, a position reinforced by an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice last year.
The Palestinian Authority condemned the move, saying it was illegal and would "destroy" the prospects for a two-state solution.
Despite mounting domestic and international pressure to end the nearly two-year genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has intensified its assault on the Gaza Strip, advancing plans to occupy the Palestinian territory. advancing in its plans to occupy the Palestinian territory.
The occupation force have hit residential buildings in its largest urban centre amid warnings of a looming ground invasion with no timeline, even as the UN declared famine in the Palestinian Strip last month and Israeli attacks simultaneously escalate in the West Bank.
Netanyahu has also refused to respond to a 60-day truce/prisoner swap proposal, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, that was previously agreed to by Israel and accepted by Hamas on 18 August.
Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, Israel has killed at least 64,368 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry that the United Nations considers reliable.
In the occupied West Bank, at least 1,018 Palestinians have also been killed and more than 7,000 wounded by Israeli forces and terrorist settlers over the same period.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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