At least 42 people were arrested by police after last night’s terrorist attack outside a Jerusalem synagogue. The police publicized this, saying that those arrested – including the attacker’s family members – were all residents of the a-Tur neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The army and police have raised the state of alert across the country following the attack that killed seven Israeli civilians, with further troop deployments in the West Bank and garrisoning public squares in Israel. “A heroic action that is a confirmation of how the resistance will continue in all occupied territories”. The spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, Hasem Kassem, praised the attack carried out this morning by a 13-year-old Palestinian at the Silwan archaeological site in Jerusalem, in which two people were injured. “The heroic action in Silwan is a confirmation that the resistance continues in the occupied territories and is a response to the crimes committed by the occupiers in sacred places against our people,” Kassem said.
Another attack in front of a synagogue in East Jerusalem, two people injured
A gunman opened fire in East Jerusalem, injuring at least two people. This was reported by the Israel Rescue Service, who identified the wounded as two men, aged 23 and 47, a father and son, both in serious condition. The attacker was neutralized. They were hit “in the upper body”. This was reported by the paramedics who arrived at the scene of the attack and quoted by the Jerusalem Post. “We quickly arrived at the crime scene and saw the victims. They were fully conscious and sustained gunshot wounds to the upper body,” paramedic Fadi Dekidak said. “We quickly transferred her to an intensive care unit and evacuated her to Shaare Zedek Hospital with life-saving medical treatment,” he added. Police and Shin Bet troops arrived at the scene within minutes of alerting police. The attacker, a 13-year-old boy, was killed. According to Maariv, searches are being carried out in the area to determine if the man had any accomplices.
US conviction
The White House “strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack that took place at a synagogue in Jerusalem tonight,” “we are shocked and saddened by the loss of life.” One attack “tragically occurred on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.” We read that in a note. “The United States will give its full support to the government and people of Israel.”
Jenin, in the streets of terror
in the cat January 28, 2023
An “attack on the civilized world”: This is how US President Joe Biden defined the attack on a synagogue that killed seven. Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pledge his support and to remind him of “the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security,” according to a White House statement.
Jerusalem, shooting in a synagogue: shots can be heard in the distance
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has strongly condemned “the terrorist attack carried out by a Palestinian in front of a synagogue in Jerusalem”, in which seven people have been killed so far. Guterres stressed how “particularly hateful” it was that this attack was aimed at a place of worship and “on the exact day that the Jewish Holocaust Memorial Day is observed.” Then he added that “there is no excuse for terrorist attacks: they must all be clearly condemned and rejected”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said what happened in East Jerusalem that evening was “one of the worst attacks in recent years”.
“I am thinking of the victims of yesterday’s attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem, of their families, of the Israeli people. Strong condemnation of this heinous act. The spiral of violence must be avoided at all costs. French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in a tweet.
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Party on the streets of Gaza and Jenin
While Jerusalem is counting the dead from the attack, news of the attack was celebrated with “fireworks and gunfire” in Jenin in the West Bank. In various places in the Gaza Strip, dozens of Palestinians gathered in impromptu demonstrations to celebrate the attack on Jerusalem. Similar celebrations were reported from the West Bank city of Ramallah.
The attack follows days of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. And tensions escalated further on Thursday morning when at least nine Palestinians died in a raid by Israeli forces on a terrorist cell in the West Bank. The reaction on Thursday night was the launching of numerous rockets from Gaza, to which Israel responded with airstrikes. Tensions also raged in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount on Friday, although Muslim prayers went smoothly. Complicated days will lie ahead for the Netanyahu government, which took office just a few weeks ago.
The newlyweds killed while helping the wounded
Among the seven Israelis killed yesterday by a Palestinian bomber near a Jerusalem synagogue is a married couple: Eli, 48, and Natalie, 45, Mizrahi. Eli’s father, Shimon Mizrahi, said on television that the two were at their home when they heard the first shots. «They rushed to the street to help the wounded, not noticing the terrorist who was standing next to a parked car. He shot her at point blank range, killing her on the spot.” The victims of the attack are Orthodox Jews. According to Jewish orthodoxy, their funerals were to take place tonight at the end of the Sabbath rest.