Breaking news: It has been reported that 5 people lost their lives in an armed attack on a synagogue in a Jewish settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.
In a written statement from the Israeli police, it was stated that the attacker came to a synagogue in Neve Yakov Square and started shooting at the people around.
In the statement, it was noted that the police units arrived at the scene and neutralized the attacker in the armed conflict.
In the statement made by the Red Star of David, the Israeli emergency service, it was shared that 5 people lost their lives and at least 5 injured, 2 of them seriously.
BACKGROUND OF THE ATTACK
Tensions have recently escalated in the occupied West Bank and Palestinian casualties have increased.
9 Palestinians, including a 60-year-old woman, were killed in the raid carried out by the Israeli army on the Jenin Refugee Camp in the north of the occupied West Bank yesterday morning. In the events that broke out in the region after the raid, a 22-year-old Palestinian youth died in the er-Ram town of occupied East Jerusalem.
As a result of the fire opened by Israeli soldiers, 30 Palestinians, including women and children, have lost their lives in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank since New Year’s Day. (AA)