Palestinian gunman kills 7, injures 10 outside Jerusalem synagogue
New York Post
January 27, 2023
Six were killed after a Palestinian shooter opened fire outside a synagogue in Jerusalem.
A Palestinian gunman killed seven worshippers outside a Jerusalem
synagogue Friday night in apparent retaliation for an Israeli military
raid in the West Bank a day earlier.
The Sabbath-eve slaughter, which also left three wounded, marked the deadliest attack on Israelis in more than a decade.
One of the slain victims was a 70-year-old woman and several others were in their 60s. A 15-year-old boy was among the wounded.
News of the bloodshed sparked celebrations by Palestinians in both
the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where people fired bullets into the
air, shouted “God is great!” and handed out sweets.
In addition to the carnage in Neve Yaakov, a religious Jewish
settlement in east Jersualem, a barrage of rockets was fired into Israel
from Gaza, prompting a series of Israeli airstrikes.
But no casualties were reported from those attacks, which appeared to be
intentionally limited so they wouldn’t provoke an all-out war.
Palestinians celebrate in Gaza City following Jerusalem’s shooting attack on synagogue
Smoke and flames rise during Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters that he’d
held a security assessment and decided on “immediate actions,” with his
Security Cabinet to discuss any further response on Saturday night,
after the end of Sabbath.
Netanyahu said Israel would act with “determination and composure
but declined to elaborate.
He also called on the public to not seek out vigilante justice.
Friday’s violence came after nine people, including seven Palestinian
militants and a 61-year-old woman, were killed during an Israeli raid
in the town of Jenin.
That incident marked the deadliest single raid in the West Bank in
two decades and was followed by the fatal shooting of a 10th Palestinian
during fighting in Jerusalem.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting but a
spokesman for the Hamas terrorist group that runs Gaza called it “a
revenge and natural response” to the Israeli raid in Jenin.
Israeli police said the Jerusalem shooter fled in a car after opening
fire and was killed during a gun battle after cops chased him down.
He was identified as a 21-year-old east Jerusalem resident who apparently acted alone.
But Jerusalem Police Chief Doron Turjeman vowed an “aggressive and significant” investigation to find any accomplices.
Those killed included five men and two women, including several who were 60 or older, according to Israel’s MADA rescue service.
A wounded, 15-year-old boy was recovering after surgery, according to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital.
The attack came ahead of a planned Sunday visit to the region by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the US strongly
condemned the shootings and was “shocked and saddened by the loss of
life.”
Jean-Pierre also noted that the killings came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“The United States will extend our full support to the government and people of Israel,” she said.
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