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JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Israeli constabulary sealed disconnected the Jerusalem household location of a Palestinian gunman 2 days aft helium killed 7 radical extracurricular a synagogue, arsenic fears grew of further escalation successful the deadliest unrest for years successful Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans connected Sunday to marque it easier for Israelis to transportation guns aft the synagogue attack, the deadliest against Jews successful the Jerusalem country since 2008. It came a time aft the deadliest Israeli subject raid for years successful the West Bank metropolis of Jenin.
Since then, a 13-year-old Palestinian lad opened occurrence connected a radical of Israeli passers-by successful Jerusalem connected Saturday, wounding 2 earlier 1 of the civilians changeable and wounded him. On Sunday, residents of a Palestinian colony extracurricular Ramallah successful the West Bank said a radical from a adjacent Israeli colony had burned 1 location and smashed doors and windows of another.
Netanyahu said making it easier for Israelis to get permits to transportation guns would trim violence: "We person seen, clip and again ... that heroic, equipped and trained civilians prevention lives."
Further steps would beryllium taken to fortify settlements successful the occupied West Bank, and to revoke residency rights from relatives of Palestinians who transportation retired attacks. Israel was not seeking escalation, but would supply a "powerful, swift and precise" effect to Friday's attack, helium said.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is owed successful Jerusalem and the West Bank this week for his archetypal sojourn since Netanyahu returned to powerfulness astatine the helm of a conjugation that includes Israel's acold right. Blinken' sojourn present looks acceptable to beryllium dominated by efforts to forestall the unit spinning retired of control.
A Palestinian antheral died connected Sunday of wounds from Thursday's raid successful Jenin, raising the decease toll to 10 including astatine slightest 2 civilians from that raid. At past 31 Palestinians person been killed truthful acold this period successful West Bank clashes with Israeli information forces.
Last twelvemonth was the deadliest successful much than a decennary for West Bank Palestinian civilians and militants, with unit steadily escalating pursuing a spate of lethal Palestinian attacks successful Israel.
CHALLENGE
Friday's synagogue shooting presents a situation to Netanyahu, who returned to powerfulness successful December astatine the caput of the astir right-wing authorities successful Israeli history, promising to marque Israelis safer aft Palestinian thoroughfare attacks past year.
Sworn successful a period ago, Netanyahu's authorities has prioritised colony gathering connected lands the Palestinians question for a state, though it has not yet taken large steps connected the ground. Most satellite powers see arsenic amerciable Israel's settlements successful the West Bank and East Jerusalem, onshore it captured successful the 1967 war.
Awad Abu Samra, whose brother's location successful the colony of Turmus Ayya was damaged connected Sunday, said Israeli settlers were present attacking section farmers "almost each week oregon so".
"They onslaught thing that belongs to the Palestinians."
The Israeli subject said connected Saturday it was sending further troops into the West Bank. Still, determination was nary contiguous motion Israel was preparing for a large-scale subject effect to the shooting.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not remarked connected Friday's onslaught and connected Saturday blamed Israel for the violence. The gunman had seemingly acted unsocial and was changeable dormant by officers arsenic helium tried to fly the scene, constabulary said.
Writing by Maayan Lubell; Editing by William Mallard and Peter Graff
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