A day after seven people were killed in an incident close to a synagogue in the city, authorities reported two people were hurt in a shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem.
Following the incident in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, next to Jerusalem’s Old City, a representative for Israel’s rescue emergency response agency (MDA) said that a father, 47, and son, 23, were in severe condition with “gunshot wounds to their upper bodies.”
According to a police spokesperson, the event on Saturday was a “terrorist attack,” and the attacker, a 13-year-old Palestinian from the occupied East Jerusalem, was “neutralised and wounded.”
“An identity check of the terrorist, who was wounded and overpowered, reveals him as a 13-year-old resident of East Jerusalem,” they said on Twitter.
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A few hours after seven people were killed and three more were injured outside one of the city’s synagogues on Friday night, the event happened in the Silwan area of East Jerusalem. A Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, age 21, was the attacker. The police killed him.
Following the incident on Friday, 42 persons were detained by the police, including “members of the terrorist’s family.” The number of security personnel has grown throughout Israel and the West Bank, and police are now on “maximum” alert.
Israeli security forces conducted a raid on the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday in the northern West Bank. According to officials, the army was going to apprehend three suspected terrorists when they opened fire and were killed. Nine Palestinians were killed in the operation, according to local authorities.
On Friday morning, a number of missiles were launched into Israel from Gaza. As a retaliation, Israel attacked locations in Gaza that it said belonged to the terrorist organisation Hamas.
