An armed Palestinian shot and killed seven people Friday night outside a synagogue in East Jerusalem during Shabbat prayers.. This happened after the Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip.. Attack following Thursday's deadly Israeli raid in Jenin that killed nine Palestinians. All this together increases the risk of a second escalation between Israelis and Palestinians, says France 24.
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The Friday night attack, during which the shooter himself was shot dead, took place in Neve Yaakov, an area of \u200b\u200bthe Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem that Israel has annexed part of.. The attack happened at the end of Holocaust Remembrance Day..
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Israeli police said Saturday that 42 people have been arrested for questioning, some of them family members of the terrorist..
Note that as a result of the attack of a 21-year-old Palestinian, a resident of East Jerusalem, who opened fire on the street at about 20:15, seven people were killed. According to police, after a car chase and shootout with police, "
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Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's counterpart to the Red Cross, said it had identified a total of ten victims hit by bullets, including a 70-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy..
Deadly Israeli air raid, Hamas rockets and airstrikes.
In addition to the nine dead, the Israeli army's raid on Jenin on Thursday morning also left several dozen wounded.. Israel presented this as a pre-emptive action against an Islamic Jihad cell planning an attack in Israel..
The United Nations has not recorded such a high number of casualties during any Israeli operation in the West Bank since it began counting the number of victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2005.
A tenth Palestinian was killed Thursday in an Israeli shelling in Al-Rama near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health..
In response, on the night of Thursday to Friday, rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip, which has been under the control of Hamas since 2007, the territory of Palestine. Israel retaliated by airstrikes at night on what the army described as a Hamas " Losses in these attacks were not recorded..
In response to the Israeli raid in Jenin, the Palestinian authorities decided to end security cooperation with Israel for the first time since 2020.