Sat 28 January 2023:
On Saturday, hours after a shooter shot and killed seven people outside a synagogue in one of the bloodiest such incidents in recent memory, a 13-year-old Palestinian kid shot and wounded a father and son in east Jerusalem.
The two shootings defied international appeals for calm and represented a tragic new phase in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
According to the police, the most recent shooting took place early on Saturday in Silwan, which is located outside of Jerusalem’s ancient walled city.
New shooting wounds two Israeli settlers in Silwan
A shooting at a settlement in the Silwan neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday wounded two Israeli settlers, according to Israeli police, which has yet to reveal the identity of the shooter. pic.twitter.com/vjk11xSf0Y
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A father, 47, and his 23-year-old son sustained gunshot wounds to their upper bodies and were rushed to hospital, police and medics said.
Police said the suspect was “neutralised” following the latest gun attack in the Silwan neighbourhood, just outside Jerusalem’s old, walled city.
Police had earlier announced the arrest of 42 people in connection with Friday’s synagogue attack.
The mass shooting was carried out by a 21-year-old Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem who drove up to the synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood and opened fire during the Jewish Sabbath, and on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The attack came with tensions rising across the region a day after one of the deadliest army raids in the occupied West Bank in roughly two decades, as well as rocket fire from militants in the Gaza Strip and Israeli retaliatory air strikes.
Crowds shouted “Death to Arabs” as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the scene of the synagogue attack late Friday.
Palestinians held spontaneous rallies to celebrate the killings in Gaza and across the West Bank, including in Ramallah where large crowds swarmed the streets chanting and waving Palestinian flags.
Several Arab nations that have ties with Israel– including Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates — condemned Friday night’s shooting.
Washington had announced Thursday that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken would travel next week to Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he would push for an “end to the cycle of violence”.
A US State Department spokesman confirmed on Friday that the visit would go ahead and said Blinken would discuss “steps to be taken to de-escalate tensions”.
At least 26 Israelis and 200 Palestinians were killed across Israel and the Palestinian territories in 2022, the majority in the West Bank, according to an AFP tally from official sources.
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