Israeli security forces and emergency services personnel gather in a cordoned off area in Jerusalem’s mostly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, where an attacker is said to have shot and wounded two people on January 28, 2023.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli police say a 13-year-old Palestinian boy shot and wounded two people in East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, just a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside a synagogue. in Jerusalem at the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath. kill seven people.
Police said the gunman opened fire outside the historic Old City of Jerusalem outside a Jewish settlement in a Palestinian neighborhood. The injured men, aged in their 20s and 40s, were taken to hospital. Police said the gunman was shot and wounded.
On Friday night, at the start of the Jewish Sabbath, a Palestinian gunman opened fire outside a synagogue, killing seven people and wounding three others. Police killed the gunman and arrested dozens of his relatives.
Witnesses spoke to Israeli media about Friday’s shooting. They said the attacker opened fire on people on the street outside the synagogue, and several Israelis who heard the gunshots and ran to the scene were also killed, including a husband and wife who were attend Shabbat dinner on Friday night, as well as a motorcyclist. who stopped to help the injured.
Friday’s attack was the deadliest attack against Israelis in years and came a day after the Israeli army conduct the most dangerous raid in the occupied West Bank for years, leaving at least nine Palestinians dead, including militants and a 61-year-old woman.
Israeli police say they are on high alert for violence.
President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Friday’s attacks that he would provide “every means of appropriate support to the Government and People of Israel in the coming days.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to visit the region later this week.
