Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Monday, killing six people in what police described as "a terrorist attack," one of the deadliest in the city in recent years.

The ambulance service identified the five of the victims as a 50-year-old man, a woman in her fifties and three men in their thirties. It said 11 other people had suffered injuries, including six who were in a serious condition with gunshot wounds.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said later a sixth person had died and that the gunmen were Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement which condemned "any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians".

But Palestinian militant group Hamas praised two Palestinian "resistance fighters" who it said had carried out the attack and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group, also praised the shooting. Neither group claimed responsibility.

Israeli police said two attackers arrived by car and opened fire at a bus stop at Ramot Junction in Jerusalem. Speaking at the scene of the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli forces were pursuing suspects who aided them. 

In October 2024, two Palestinians, one armed with a gun and the other armed with a knife, killed seven people in Tel Aviv. In November 2023, two Palestinian gunmen killed three people at a Jerusalem bus stop. Israeli security services said the attackers in the 2023 Jerusalem shooting were linked to Hamas.

Ceasefire back on the table? 

Meanwhile, Israel has accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.

Speaking at a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart in Budapest, Saar said his country was ready to accept a full deal ending the war that would include the release of hostages and Hamas laying down its arms.

Spanish sanctions

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday his government would increase pressure on Israel by banning Israel-bound ships and aircraft carrying weapons from calling at Spanish ports or entering Spanish airspace.

He also said the Spanish government would increase aid to the Palestinian authority and UNRWA agency and would impose an embargo on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel's highest court accuses government 

In a highly rare exercise of wartime legal restraint, Israel's Supreme Court ruled on Sunday the Israeli government had deprived Palestinian detainees of even a minimum subsistence diet and ordered authorities to increase the amount and improve the quality of food served to Palestinian inmates.

Since Hamas' October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, Israel has largely rejected growing international criticism of its conduct by arguing its actions were necessary to defeat Hamas.

The Israeli army has detained large numbers of Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank on suspicion of militant ties. 

As Israel's highest tier of accountability, the Supreme Court hears complaints from individuals and organizations against Israeli government actions. The three-judge panel ruled unanimously that Israel's government had a legal duty to provide Palestinian prisoners with three meals a day to ensure "a basic level of existence."

"We are not speaking here of comfortable living or luxury, but of the basic conditions of survival as required by law," the ruling said. "Let us not share in the ways of our worst enemies."

In response to the ruling, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the prison system, said: "Are you from Israel?" he asked the judges, arguing that while Israeli hostages in Gaza have no one to help them, Israel's Supreme Court defends Hamas "to our disgrace."

He vowed the policy of providing prisoners with "the most minimal conditions stipulated by law" would continue unchanged.