JERUSALEM: A member of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement opened fire on Sunday in Jerusalem’s Old City, killing one person and wounding three before he was shot dead, Israeli officers, police, and croakers said.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett ordered security to be boosted and called for people to be on “ heightened alert” over the threat of further attacks.
The four wounded, two police officers and two civilians, were rushed to Jerusalem’s Hadassah sanitarium, where one of the mercenary victims failed.
“ This morning there was a serious firing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem,” Bennett said in a statement. “ At the moment we’ve one dead and three wounded.
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“ Two policewomen and one bobby snappily neutralized the terrorist.”
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation linked the victim as Eliyahu Kay, an emigrant from South Africa, who was employed by them as a companion at the Western Wall galleria.
The immigration ministry said he was 25 and had come to Israel in 2019. His burial was set to take place on Monday morning in Jerusalem.
Police said the bushwhacker had fired a “ Carlo- type armament”, a type of submachine gun.
After the firing, dozens of police officers were stationed to the narrow thoroughfares of the major walled megacity, as workers hosed pools of blood from the cobblestones, said a journalist.
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The Old City is in the Israeli- adjoined eastern part of Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of their unborn state.
Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and latterly adjoined it, in a move not recognized by the utmost of the transnational community.
Rightwing lawgivers from opposition parties organized a march on Sunday through the point of the attack.
Israel’s Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev said the bushwhacker was a Palestinian living in the Shuafat neighborhood in east Jerusalem.
“ He was a member of Hamas, the political branch, not the fortified sect,” Bar-Lev told Israel’s Kan TV channel, saying the man’s woman had traveled abroad three days agone, while his son was also out of the country.
“ It seems that this attack is premeditated,” Bar-Lev said. Police linked him as a 42- time-old east Jerusalem occupant.
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