Palestinian kills 1, injures 4 before police shoot him dead

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian assailant killed 1 Israeli and injured 4 others earlier being fatally changeable by Israeli constabulary adjacent the entranceway to a flashpoint Jerusalem beatified tract Sunday, constabulary said.

Police said the onslaught took spot adjacent an entranceway to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews arsenic the Temple Mount and to Muslims arsenic the Noble Sanctuary. Violence surrounding the site, which is considered beatified by some faiths, has triggered erstwhile rounds of warring betwixt Israel and the Palestinians, astir precocious successful May.

Paramedics said 1 idiosyncratic suffered captious injuries, 1 suffered superior wounds, and 3 others were lightly injured. Jerusalem’s Hadassah infirmary aboriginal said the critically injured idiosyncratic died. The paramedics said the Palestinian attacker was confirmed dormant astatine the scene.

Rabbi Zevi Katzanelbogen, a nonmigratory of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, said helium was walking location from greeting prayers astatine the Western Wall, turned a country and heard gunfire. Moments aboriginal helium was struck successful the limb by a bullet, helium told reporters from his infirmary bed.

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Police said 2 of those lightly injured were officers and identified the attacker arsenic a 42-year-old eastbound Jerusalem resident. Public Security Minister Omer Bar Lev told reporters the gunman was a subordinate of Hamas's governmental limb from the Shuafat exile campy successful eastbound Jerusalem, and that the man's woman near the state 3 days earlier.

Palestinian media identified the attacker arsenic Fadi Abu Shkhaidem, and shared an representation of him wearing agelong achromatic robes and a achromatic overgarment and carrying a firearm akin to the 1 shown successful constabulary photos. He was a teacher astatine a precocious schoolhouse adjacent the Old City.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said astatine the commencement of the play Cabinet gathering that helium ordered information forces to beryllium connected alert to forestall different attacks.

The Hamas militant radical praised the onslaught successful a connection but stopped abbreviated of claiming responsibility, calling the incidental a “heroic operation.” It aboriginal claimed Abu Shkhaidem arsenic 1 of its members.

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“Our people’s absorption volition proceed to beryllium morganatic by each means and tools against the Zionist occupier until our desired goals are achieved and the concern is expelled from our beatified sites and each of our lands,” spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanou said.

Dimiter Tzantchev, the EU ambassador-designate to Israel, said successful a connection connected Twitter that his thoughts were “with the victims of the cowardly onslaught successful the Old City of Jerusalem" and condemned “this senseless onslaught against civilians. Violence is ne'er the answer.”

Sunday’s incidental was the 2nd of its benignant successful Jerusalem’s historical Old City successful caller days. On Wednesday, a Palestinian teen was fatally changeable aft stabbing 2 Israeli borderline police.

In that incident, the 2 officers were hospitalized and the teen, identified by constabulary arsenic a 16-year-old from eastbound Jerusalem, was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Palestinians person carried retired dozens of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks targeting Israeli civilians and information unit successful caller years. Palestinians and rights groups contend immoderate of the alleged car-rammings were accidents and impeach Israel of utilizing excessive force.

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But shootings astir Jerusalem's Old City and its beatified sites are comparatively rare, and Israel maintains a sizeable information beingness successful the area.

Israel captured eastbound Jerusalem, including the Old City and its Christian, Muslim and Jewish beatified sites, on with the West Bank and Gaza Strip successful the 1967 Mideast war. It aboriginal annexed eastbound Jerusalem successful a determination unrecognized by astir of the planetary community.

The Palestinians question the occupied West Bank and Gaza for a aboriginal autarkic state, with eastbound Jerusalem arsenic its capital.

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