Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged a 'strong' and 'swift' response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem's outskirts.
The security cabinet also decided to make it easier to obtain permits to carry firearms.
The attacks came after one of the deadliest Israeli army raids in the West Bank in two decades, rocket fire from militants in the Gaza Strip and retaliatory Israeli air strikes. Calling the attack "particularly abhorrent", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was "deeply worried about the current escalation of violence".
It was one of the deadliest Israeli army raids in the West Bank since the second intifada, the Palestinian uprising of 2000 to 2005.Islamic Jihad and Hamas both later fired several rockets at Israeli territory.
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