After Israel’s deadly assault in the Jenin refugee camp, a Palestinian shot and killed seven people near a synagogue the day before.
A day after seven people were killed in an incident close to a synagogue in the city, authorities reported two people were hurt in a shooting attack in occupied East Jerusalem.
Following the incident in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, next to Jerusalem’s Old City, a representative for Israel’s rescue emergency response service (MDA) reported that a father, 47, and son, 23, were in serious condition with “gunshot wounds to their upper bodies.”
According to a police spokeswoman, the event on Saturday was a “terrorist attack,” and the attacker, a 13-year-old Palestinian from the occupied East Jerusalem, was “neutralised and injured.”
The incident happened the day after a Palestinian assailant killed seven people in close proximity to a synagogue on the city’s outskirts.
Israel conducted a devastating raid on the Jenin refugee camp on Thursday in the occupied West Bank. Dozens of soldiers attacked a house that the Israeli army said was home to possible fighters. This led to several hours of violent fighting that killed ten Palestinians, including an old woman.
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Since the second Intifada, or uprising, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, it has been one of the deadliest Israeli army incursions in the occupied West Bank.
In a second incident on Thursday, Israeli forces shot a 22-year-old Palestinian man in the village of al-Ram, which is located north of Jerusalem.
Overnight on Thursday, Israel again conducted many airstrikes against the embattled Gaza Strip.
Local sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera that by early Friday morning, Israeli jets had launched at least 13 attacks against the al-Maghazi refugee camp in the territory’s centre.
Following the attack on Friday, the police claimed to have detained 42 Palestinians.
The Palestinian Authority, which has limited governmental authority in the occupied West Bank, announced it was suspending a security cooperation agreement with Israel after at least 30 Palestinians were killed this year before the shooting on Friday.
At least 150 Palestinians were slain in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem last year as the Israeli military stepped up its arrest operations in response to a series of fatal Palestinian attacks inside Israel. It was the highest yearly death toll in more than 15 years. Last year, attacks by Palestinians on Israelis resulted in the deaths of thirty people.
RESOURCES: NEWSPAPERS AND AL JAZEERA
