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4 Israelis killed in deadly synagogue attack in west Jerusalem
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FOUR Israelis were killed and eight injured in a militant attack at a synagogue in west Jerusalem on Tuesday, police said.
"Two suspects entered a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood in Jerusalem with knives and axes at about 7:00 a.m. ... Four Israelis were killed and the two terrorists were shot and killed by police," police spokesperson Mickey Rosenfeld said, adding that the attackers went from room to room and attacked the Jewish worshippers with guns, knives and axes.
Security forces are canvassing the area for a third possible suspect who may have been involved in the attack and managed to escape. According to the Channel 2 news, the two terrorists were Palestinians living in east Jerusalem's Jabel Mukabar neighborhoods.
A spokesperson for the Magen David Adom Emergency Services said that four of the eight injured were in critical condition.
A Hamas spokesperson said the attack was in response to the death of a Palestinian bus driver on Sunday night, the Channel 2 news reported. Although the Israeli police concluded that the death of Yusuf Hassan al-Ramouni, who was found hanged in a bus Sunday night, was an apparent suicide, Palestinians charged that he was killed by Jewish extremists.
Tuesday's attack is another incident in a chain that have taken place in Jerusalem, as tensions between Jews and Arabs are mounting. On Sunday evening, a 32-year-old Jewish man was stabbed and moderately injured by an apparent Palestinian perpetrator.
Last week, two Israelis were killed in separate attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank, amid several other sporadic run-over attacks in Jerusalem as clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces continued there.
The tensions largely stem from the expansion of Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, territories which were annexed by Israel in the 1967 Mideast War but were home to more than 300,000 Palestinians. Violence was also triggered during clashes over the status quo of al-Aqsa Mosque, or Temple Mount complex referred to by Jews, a holy site to both Jews and Muslims.
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