Two people were wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on Saturday, emergency services say, after a gunman killed at least seven people near a synagogue in the city on Friday. 9News
The two men injured in the City of David area of Jerusalem on Saturday, one aged 22 and one in his 40s, are father and son, according to police.
"Australia unequivocally condemns the horrific terrorist attack that claimed the lives of at least seven worshippers in Jerusalem on Friday evening," Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement on Saturday evening. Tensions in Israel and the Palestinian territories remain high after Friday's shooting, which police chief Yaakov Shabtai described as "one of the worst terror attacks in the past few years"."As a result of the shooting attack, the death of seven civilians was determined and three others were injured with additional degrees of injury," police said.
The attack occurred around 8.15pm local time on Friday, near a synagogue on Neve Yaakov Street, according to a police statement. Israel's Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks with Israeli forces near the scene of a shooting attack in Neve Yaacov which lies on occupied land that Israel annexed to Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war January 27, 2023.
Jawad Siam, director of the Silwanic non-profilt organisation in East Jerusalem, told CNN the suspect's family denied their 13-year-old son was responsible for the Saturday attack, which happened close to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Silwan, East Jerusalem.
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