A suicide bombing occurred on 19 June 2002, in a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill settlement in northern East Jerusalem.

[4][7][8] On Wednesday, shortly after 7:05 am,[1] a Palestinian suicide bomber got out of a red Audi vehicle[9] next to a bus station in Jerusalem's French Hill settlement.

[10] Two Border Police patrolmen, who were securing the site,[9] chased the suspect to try to stop him, but the suicide bomber managed to run past them[11][12][13] straight into the middle of a crowd of people waiting for the bus in one of the busiest bus stops in Israel.

[16] White House spokesman Ari Fleischer stated that Bush would delay the plan as such, because "It's obvious that the immediate aftermath is not the right time.

[9] Israel: Palestinian territories: ‡ indicates the terrorist attack which caused the greatest amount of Israeli casualties during the 2000s