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‘Life Ended Before It Began’: Aunt Mourns Murder of Newly Married Nephew in Jerusalem Terror Attack
Jacob Pinto, center right, during the chuppah ceremony at his wedding in Jerusalem this past summer. Photo: Instagram/Carrie Nachmani
Six people were murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack at a bus stop in Jerusalem on Monday, and one victim was a young newlywed who recently immigrated to Israel from Spain.
“He was a most noble, honorable, religious, kind young man … We waited all our lives for him to marry our niece. She waited for the man of her dreams,” Carrie Nachmani told The Algemeiner on Monday about 25-year-old Jacob Pinto. He married Nachmani’s niece in Jerusalem this summer.
Nachmani, a cookbook author and the mother of Instagram influencer Ariella Charnas, shared on Instagram a video from Pinto’s wedding to her niece, and it showed the couple during the chuppah ceremony. Nachmani wrote in the caption of the video that Pinto, a Spanish citizen and resident of Jerusalem, was heading to his teaching job on Monday when two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at his bus stop at Ramot Junction in northern Jerusalem, killing six people before the attackers were shot dead by a soldier and an armed civilian. She said Pinto was already onboard when the terrorists “stormed his bus and shot him.”
“He immediately called my niece to say how much he loved her, his family and their new life he had waited for,” Nachmani wrote. “There are not enough words for this evil that exists … Unbearable, inconsolable, unimaginable … life ended before it began … may his memory be a blessing.”
On Monday, Charnas shared on her Instagram Story a screenshot of her mother’s Instagram post and tribute to Pinto.
Pinto’s murder took place the same morning that Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced sanctions against both Spanish Minister of Childhood and Youth Sira Rego and Deputy Prime Minister and Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz. The two are banned from entering Israel, and the country has ended all official contacts with them because of their antisemitic statements and criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Others who were killed in Monday’s terrorist attack include Sarah Mendelson, 60; Rabbi Israel Matzner, 28; Rabbi Yosef David, 43; Rabbi Mordechai Steintzag, 79; and Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Pash. Eleven others were reportedly injured in the attack, including a pregnant woman and six who were in critical condition with gunshot wounds.
Sa’ar said the gunmen were Palestinians from the West Bank. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement condemning “any targeting of Palestinian and Israeli civilians,” but the Palestinian terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the shooting, with Hamas calling the two gunman “resistance fighters.” Neither terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the shooting.
Several guns, ammunition, and a knife used by the attackers were found at the scene of the shooting, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said authorities were looking for suspects who might have helped the attackers. The deadly shooting took place amid a nearly two-year war between Israel and Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip who orchestrated the deadly massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.