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Twenty people were wounded when an explosion ripped through a bus outside Jerusalem's central bus station on Wednesday, medical officials told AFP, saying three were seriously hurt.
Israeli officials and police confirmed the explosion was caused by a bomb, which was apparently left next to a public phone by a bus stop.
The blast occurred as tensions ran high along the Gaza border, where there has been a significant increase in Palestinian rocket attacks and retaliatory Israeli air strikes, ramped up tensions between Israel and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers.
On Tuesday, eight Palestinians, two of them minors, were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on Gaza City.
Four of them were militants from the armed wing of the Islamist jihad movement, the Al Quds Brigades, who vowed to step up its attacks on Israel.
Israeli officials and police confirmed the explosion was caused by a bomb, which was apparently left next to a public phone by a bus stop.
The blast occurred as tensions ran high along the Gaza border, where there has been a significant increase in Palestinian rocket attacks and retaliatory Israeli air strikes, ramped up tensions between Israel and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers.
On Tuesday, eight Palestinians, two of them minors, were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on Gaza City.
Four of them were militants from the armed wing of the Islamist jihad movement, the Al Quds Brigades, who vowed to step up its attacks on Israel.