Drivers from the East Jerusalem Transport company have redirected bus routes through Jerusalem's Jewish Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, leaving residents panicked in the wake of a shooting and stabbing spree on a city bus.
The bus company typically only operates service to and from Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and along Route 1, the Tel-Aviv Jerusalem highway.
Drivers from East Jerusalem bus lines 203 and 204 say they have been forced to reroute their routes - which lead from Jabel Mukhaber, a neighborhood infamous for producing violent terrorists, to Tzur Baher - due to the concrete barriers the State erected following the attack.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made the controversial decision to post temporary concrete walls at the southeastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Armon Hanatziv - specifically to block Arab terrorists from the adjacent Jabel Mukaber - just days after the attack.
But despite the blocks, Jabel Mukhaber residents now are walking from their neighborhood into Armon Hanatziv, then boarding the East Jerusalem buses via an unofficial bus station.
Armon Hanatziv residents are panicking over the move, Walla! News reports, which follows the October 13 attack wherein two terrorists stormed the 78 bus, killing three people and wounding six others. One Arab driver claimed to the outlet that the 204 bus had been subject to rock attacks since the reroute.