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Two people were injured in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Saturday, a day after a shooter killed at least seven people near a synagogue in Jerusalem, emergency services said.
Two men, one aged 22 and the other in his 40s, who were injured in the City of David in Jerusalem on Saturday are a father and son, police said. A 13-year-old boy, whom police shot and wounded two others, was “neutralized and wounded” by “two passers-by with authorized weapons”.
Tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories remain high after Friday’s shooting, which police chief Yaakov Shabtay described as “one of the worst terrorist attacks in years.” The shooter in that attack was also later killed by police, according to police.
“Seven civilians were confirmed dead and three suffered additional minor injuries as a result of the shooting attack,” police said.
Five of the shooting victims were pronounced dead at the scene, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) Emergency Rescue Service.Four men and one woman were taken to hospital. Another man and woman were confirmed dead. A 15-year-old boy was among the injured, according to the MDA.
The attack occurred near the synagogue on Neve Yaakov Street at around 8:15 pm local time on Friday, according to a police statement.
Shabtai said the shooter “started shooting at anyone who stood in his way. He got in his car and started killing people with his pistol at point-blank range.” He later died, police said.
Police identified the shooter as a 21-year-old from East Jerusalem and said he appeared to have acted alone. East Jerusalem is a predominantly Palestinian part of the city that was occupied by Israel in 1967.
Referring to Saturday’s attack, community leaders said the suspected 13-year-old shooter knew a 16-year-old Palestinian who had died from a gunshot wound the day before. Jawad Siam, director of the East Jerusalem nonprofit Sirwani, told CNN that the suspect’s family denied their 13-year-old son was involved in the attack near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Sirwan, East Jerusalem. He said he does.
The 13-year-old suspect, a 16-year-old Palestinian neighbor, died of gunshot wounds in hospital on Friday night, Siam said. A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by Israeli police on Wednesday.
Of the two injured on Saturday, a 22-year-old man is in critical but stable condition and is being anesthetized and ventilated in an intensive care unit, while a 47-year-old father is in moderate and stable condition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged people to oppose retaliatory attacks on Friday night. “I call on the people not to let the law fall into their hands. .
Meanwhile, the European Union on Saturday urged Israel to use deadly force only as a “last resort”.
“The European Union is fully aware of Israel’s legitimate security concerns, as evidenced by the recent terrorist attacks, but it should not be ruled out when deadly force is absolutely unavoidable in order to protect human life. It must be stressed that it should only be used as a last resort,” said the EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell in a press release on Saturday.
Borrell also stressed that Bloc was “extremely concerned about the growing tensions between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.”
“We call on both parties to do everything possible to ease the situation and resume the security arrangements that are essential to prevent further violence,” he concluded.
Friday’s incident happened the next day worst day CNN records show that Palestinians in the West Bank have been
Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians and injured several others in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, prompting Palestinian authorities to suspend security coordination with Israel, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A tenth Palestinian was killed that day in what Israeli police called a “violent riot” near Jerusalem.
On Friday morning, at night local time, Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired towards it.
Israel’s controversial State Security Minister Itamar Ben Gubir visited the site of the attack on Friday night and told angrily chanting people, “This can’t go on.”
“I can teach you, [the people chanting] you are right. We bear the burden. It can’t go on like this,” said Ben Gubir, who heads the far-right Jewish Power Party.
Some people at the scene were voicing their support for Ben Guvir, saying, “You are our voice. We support you.”
CNN’s Hadas Gold and his team, who were also at the shooting site Friday night, heard celebratory gunshots and what sounded like car horns from a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood near Beit Hanina.
The White House on Friday condemned a “vicious terrorist attack” at a synagogue in Jerusalem, and the US government provided Israel with “full support,” White House press secretary Carine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
The US State Department also condemned “in the strongest terms” an “obvious terrorist attack” in Jerusalem.
“This is absolutely terrifying,” said Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the State Department. “Our thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to those killed and injured in this heinous act of violence.”
Patel said it was expected that Secretary of State Anthony Brinken’s upcoming visits to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank would remain unchanged.
Second Gentleman of the United States Doug Emhoff joined the Biden administration in condemning the shooting that killed at least seven people on Friday. “This is a terrorist attack. This is a murder,” Emhoff told reporters after touring the Oskar Schindler enamel factory in Krakow, Poland.
“This is horrifying. People who were praying and living their daily lives in temples were murdered in cold blood.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken out to people condemning the deadly shooting near a synagogue in Jerusalem on Friday, saying one of those killed in the attack was a Ukrainian citizen.
“We share the (Israeli) pain after the terrorist attack in Jerusalem. Among the victims is a (Ukrainian) woman. My heart goes out to the families of the victims. The crime was ironically committed on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.There should be no place for terrorism in the world today.Neither (Israel) nor (Ukraine),” Zelensky said in a tweet.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates called for an end to escalating tensions.
In a statement released on Saturday, Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry warned that “the situation between the Palestinians and Israelis is set to escalate even more severely,” adding that “the kingdom will target civilians.” condemning all of this, de-escalating it, and emphasizing the need to restore peace to ‘deal with and end the occupation’. ”
Egypt’s foreign ministry also warned of the “serious risk of ongoing escalation” between Israel and Palestine, threatening to “fall into a vicious circle of violence that would exacerbate the political and humanitarian situation and undermine de-escalation.” It called for provocative measures to be taken to avoid “every effort and possibility to revive the peace process.” ”
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation condemned and rejected “all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining security and stability contrary to human values and principles.”
Egypt and the UAE have normalized relations with Israel. Saudi Arabia is not.
France, Germany and the UK also condemned the shooting. “We are appalled by reports of the horrific attack tonight at Neve Yaakov. Attacking worshipers at the Ereb Shabbat synagogue is a particularly horrifying act of terrorism. Britain stands with Israel,” said the British ambassador to Israel. Neil Wigan wrote on Twitter.
The French embassy in Israel tweeted that the incident was “all the more despicable because it was committed on the day of international remembrance of the Holocaust.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned Friday’s deadly attack, his spokesman said.
“It is particularly disgusting that the attack occurred at a place of worship and on the very day we commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day,” he said.
Guterres also expressed concern “about the current escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories” and urged everyone to “exercise maximum restraint”.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has offered condolences to the families of the victims following the two attacks. Scholz said Saturday he was “deeply shocked” by the “horrific” attacks in Jerusalem over the past 24 hours.
Russia on Saturday urged all parties to show “maximum restraint” after a deadly wave of violence. “We perceive this development of events with deep concern. rice field.
