On Saturday, a 13-year-old Palestinian shot and killed two men in Jerusalem It came the day after another Palestinian killed seven people in front of a synagogue in one of the most brutal attacks on Israel in the last few years.
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The attacks come amid an escalation in violence that accelerated on Thursday following one of the army’s deadliest incursions. Israel in the occupied West Bank for nearly two decades, resulting in the deaths of nine Palestinians.
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Saturday’s attack took place in the Palestinian area of Silwan, behind the wall separating the Old City, in East Jerusalemapplied Israel since 1967.
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medical and police sources Israel They indicated that the victims were a 47-year-old man and his 23-year-old son, “bulletproof in the upper body.”
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The attacker was “wounded and neutralized” by the security forces and identified as “a 13-year-old resident of East Jerusalem”, the police said.
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Jerusalem It is on high alert this Saturday after becoming the epicenter of gunfire in less than 24 hours.
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Shortly before this, the police Israel announced the arrest of 42 people in connection with the attack on Friday of a 21-year-old Palestinian who opened fire on people gathered outside the synagogue on Shabbat, killing seven.
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The massacre coincided with International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed up at this synagogue on Friday evening and was greeted by dozens of people shouting “death to the Arabs.”
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The Palestinian Authority, which governs the West Bank, said in a statement that Israel was “entirely responsible for the dangerous escalation”.
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The Lebanese group Hezbollah, one of the main enemies Israelcalled the attack “heroic” and expressed “absolute support for all the measures taken by the Palestinian resistance groups”.
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Israel exhibit East Jerusalem after the Six Day War in 1967. The Palestinians consider the city the capital of the state they aspire to build.
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