TEL AVIV — Emergency services in Israel are treating dozens of victims after a truck plowed into a bus while dropping off passengers at a bus stop near the Glilot military base, north of Tel Aviv, early Sunday.

A spokesman for the Israeli police force said a preliminary investigation indicated that the truck collided with the passengers as well as the bus.

Civilians at the scene “shot at the truck driver and neutralized him,” Israeli police said.

A 72-year-old man was taken to Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv following the attack. His condition deteriorated and he died from his injuries, the hospital confirmed to NBC News.

The circumstances of the accident remain under investigation, and Israeli police have not indicated whether they are treating the incident as a suspected terrorist attack or a traffic accident.

However, Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was a “natural response” to Israel’s actions in “Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem”.

A geolocated video by NBC News shows the immediate aftermath and the rescue operation, narrated in Hebrew by a woman who said she was on the bus that was hit.

“We are at the base of Haim Hertzog, a truck came at full power, hit us,” she said. We managed to escape, there are some of our people trapped, elderly trapped.” In the video, several people could be seen trapped under the truck, some of whom were responsive to rescuers.

“You can’t understand what’s going on here,” she said. “God, God, I can’t watch this.”

Ronit Glazer of Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical services, described a chaotic scene in a video posted by X as responders received a call about a “mass casualty event” near Glilot Junction.