During heightened tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday, Israeli police reported that at least seven persons were murdered and three more injured in a shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem. According to the police and emergency services, two individuals were hurt in a separate shooting attack on Saturday in the Jerusalem neighborhood of the City of David.
According to the hospital, the casualties, one in his 20s and the other in his 40s or 50s, were transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center’s trauma center. According to a statement from the police, “a strong police force was sent to the area,” and “The shooting suspect was neutralized.” According to a preliminary assessment released by Jerusalem police, the incident is being investigated as a possible terrorist act.
In what police head Yaakov Shabtai called “one of the worst terrorist acts in the past few years,” Friday’s shooter was reportedly slain by police troops. According to authorities, “the gunshot incident resulted in the killing of 7 citizens and the injury of 3 others with additional degrees of harm.” Four men and a woman were among the five shooting victims who were pronounced dead at the site, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency rescue agency.
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Five individuals were taken to hospitals, where a second man and woman died. According to the MDA, a 15-year-old kid is one of the injured. According to a police statement, the assault happened close to a local synagogue on Neve Yaakov Street at 8:15 p.m. The shooter “started shooting at anybody that was in his way,” according to Shabtai.
He sat in his car and began a short-range shooting spree with a pistol. He afterward drove away from the area and was shot and killed by police, according to police. In a statement, police identified the shooter as a 21-year-old East Jerusalem resident who appeared to have acted alone. East Jerusalem, which Israel seized in 1967, is a section of the city where the Palestinian population predominates.
On Friday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against retaliation attacks. “I urge the populace not to impose law on themselves. We have an army, police, and security forces for that purpose. He said they do and will continue to do as the government directed. According to CNN statistics, the event occurs one day after the deadliest day for Palestinians in the West Bank in over a year.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israeli soldiers murdered nine Palestinians on Thursday in the West Bank city of Jenin and injured several others. This caused the Palestinian Authority to halt security cooperation with Israel. In what the Israel Police described as a “violent disturbance” close to Jerusalem, a tenth Palestinian was slain that day. After rockets were fired toward Israel overnight on Friday AM local time, Israel started conducting airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s divisive national security minister, went to the scene of the incident on Friday evening and told the angry, shouting crowd that “it cannot continue like this.” “I can assure you that you are correct, [the chanting crowd]. The onus is on us. Ben Gvir, the head of the far-right Jewish Power party, stated that things couldn’t go on like this.
“You are our voice; we back you,” several onlookers yelled as they showed their support for Ben Gvir. In the nearby, predominately Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, CNN’s Hadas Gold and team, who were also present at the scene of the shooting on Friday night, heard what appeared to be celebratory gunshots and car horns honking.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a statement in which she denounced the “heinous terror incident” at a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday and stated that the US government had given Israel its “full support.” The US State Department also denounced the “apparent terrorist act” in Jerusalem in “the harshest terms.”
Vedant Patel, the Deputy Spokesperson for the State Department, remarked, “This is simply horrible.” “Those slain and injured in this horrible act of violence are in our thoughts, prayers, and condolences.” No alterations to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned travel to Egypt, Israel, and the West Bank, according to Patel, are anticipated.
The European Union, France, and the United Kingdom denounced the shooting. “I am horrified to hear of the awful attack in Neve Yaakov tonight. A very heinous act of terrorism would be to attack worshippers at a synagogue on Erev Shabbat. Neil Wigan, the British ambassador to Israel, stated on Twitter that the UK supports Israel.
Terrorism is never the solution, tweeted Dimiter Tzantchev, the EU ambassador to Israel, who also denounced the “senseless bloodshed.” The assault was “all the more terrible given it was committed on this day of international commemoration of the Holocaust,” the French embassy in Israel tweeted. According to his spokesman, Antonio Guterres, secretary general of the United Nations, also denounced the horrific attack on Friday.
The fact that the incident occurred at a house of worship and on the same day that we remembered International Holocaust Remembrance Day made it all the more repulsive, he said. Furthermore, Guterres urged everyone to “exercise extreme moderation” in light of the “current escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.”
