At least seven dead in Jerusalem synagogue attack, Israeli police say - CNN

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Israeli constabulary accidental astatine slightest 7 radical were killed and 3 were injured successful a shooting adjacent a synagogue successful Jerusalem connected Friday amid precocious tensions successful Israel and the Palestinian territories.

Friday’s shooter was besides aboriginal killed by constabulary forces, according to police, successful what constabulary main Yaakov Shabtai described arsenic “one of the worst panic attacks successful the past fewer years.”

“As a effect of the shooting attack, the decease of 7 civilians was determined and 3 others were injured with further degrees of injury,” constabulary said.

Five of the shooting victims were pronounced dormant astatine the scene, Israel’s Magen David Adom exigency rescue work said: 4 men and a woman. Five radical were transported to hospitals, wherever different antheral and pistillate were declared dead.

The onslaught occurred astir 8:15 p.m. section time, adjacent a synagogue connected Neve Yaakov Street, according to a constabulary statement.

Shabtai said the gunman “started shooting astatine anyone that was successful his way. He got successful his car and started a sidesplitting spree with a pistol astatine abbreviated range.” He past fled the country successful a conveyance and was killed aft a shootout with constabulary forces, constabulary said.

Police identified the gunman arsenic a 21-year-old nonmigratory of East Jerusalem, saying successful a connection that helium appeared to person acted alone. East Jerusalem is simply a predominantly Palestinian country of the city, which was captured by Israel successful 1967.

The incidental comes 1 time aft the deadliest day for Palestinians successful the West Bank successful implicit a year, according to CNN records. On Thursday, Israeli forces killed 9 Palestinians and wounded respective others successful the West Bank metropolis of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. A tenth Palestinian was killed that time successful what Israel Police called a “violent disturbance” adjacent Jerusalem.

Israel’s arguable National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the country of the onslaught connected Friday evening, telling radical who were chanting angrily that “it cannot proceed similar this.”

“I tin archer you, [the radical chanting] you are right. The load is connected us. It cannot proceed similar this,” Ben Gvir, who besides leads the far-right Jewish Power party, said.

Some radical connected the country were chanting enactment for Ben Gvir, saying “You are our voice, we enactment you.”

CNN’s Hadas Gold and team, who were besides astatine the country of Friday night’s shooting, heard what sounded similar celebratory gunfire and car horns honking from the adjacent predominantly Palestinian vicinity of Beit Hanina.

The United States State Department connected Friday condemned the “apparent violent attack” successful Jerusalem “in the strongest terms.”

“This is perfectly horrific,” said State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel. “Our thoughts, prayers and condolences spell retired to those killed and injured successful this heinous enactment of violence.”

Patel said the US is “still gathering information” but that the US authorities is “in nonstop interaction with our Israeli partners.”

Patel said nary alteration to the docket of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank was expected.

The European Union, France and the UK besides condemned the shooting.

“I americium appalled by reports of the unspeakable onslaught successful Neve Yaakov tonight. Attacking worshippers astatine a synagogue connected Erev Shabat is simply a peculiarly horrific enactment of terrorism. The UK stands with Israel,” Neil Wigan, the British ambassador successful Israel wrote connected Twitter.

The EU ambassador to Israel, Dimiter Tzantchev, besides condemned the “senseless violence,” saying successful his tweet, “Terror is ne'er the answer.”

And the French embassy successful Israel tweeted that the incidental was “all the much despicable arsenic it was committed connected this time of planetary remembrance of the Holocaust.”