An explosion near a bus station killed at least 30 wounded in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem, as reported by the police and medical sources. Police described the blast as a "terrorist attack", a term that refers to Israel attacks Palestinians. It was the first such incident in Jerusalem in seven years.
So far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which according to the police was caused by a bomb near the central bus station and the main conference hall of the city. At the peak of a Palestinian uprising that began in 2000 but that died out in recent years, militants perpetrated dozens of bomb attacks in Jerusalem.
The explosion, which coincided with an increase in border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, rocked the center of Jerusalem in the afternoon. Dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene where the bus were broken windows and blood on the pavement. "(We believe) that the device weighed between one and two kilos (...) exploded in a small suitcase on the sidewalk next to the bus stop," said Internal Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Channel 2 Israel.
A paramedic said he was meeting with colleagues in a nearby office to discuss sending a medical team to help Japan when they heard a loud explosion. "We expect a second, we got up and ran to the bus stop. I saw two women lying on the floor, unconscious and covered in blood," said the doctor, Motti Bukchi, Channel 2.
"I can not say what kind of injury suffered, were completely filled with blood," he added. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his departure to Russia after the incident. He was scheduled to hold talks with Russian leaders in Moscow and return to Israel on Thursday. 
So far no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which according to the police was caused by a bomb near the central bus station and the main conference hall of the city. At the peak of a Palestinian uprising that began in 2000 but that died out in recent years, militants perpetrated dozens of bomb attacks in Jerusalem.
The explosion, which coincided with an increase in border violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, rocked the center of Jerusalem in the afternoon. Dozens of ambulances rushed to the scene where the bus were broken windows and blood on the pavement. "(We believe) that the device weighed between one and two kilos (...) exploded in a small suitcase on the sidewalk next to the bus stop," said Internal Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Channel 2 Israel.
A paramedic said he was meeting with colleagues in a nearby office to discuss sending a medical team to help Japan when they heard a loud explosion. "We expect a second, we got up and ran to the bus stop. I saw two women lying on the floor, unconscious and covered in blood," said the doctor, Motti Bukchi, Channel 2.
"I can not say what kind of injury suffered, were completely filled with blood," he added. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed his departure to Russia after the incident. He was scheduled to hold talks with Russian leaders in Moscow and return to Israel on Thursday.
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