Three attackers were shot dead at the scene on a highway near the city of Jerusalem. The perpetrators got out of their vehicles during a traffic jam on the highway between the settler town of Maale Adumim and Jerusalem.
Two perpetrators were shot on site. A third tried to escape, but was caught and also killed. Israel has been waging war against the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip for almost five months. The background to the incident was initially unknown. The incident is being treated as a suspected terrorist attack.