“Prepared for any scenario”: Netanyahu announces “strong” response to attacks

“Prepared for any scenario”
Netanyahu announces “strong” response to attacks

After a Palestinian gunman killed seven people in front of a synagogue in Jerusalem, a 13-year-old opened fire near the old city. Another attempted assassination in the West Bank fails. Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu now wants to take tough action.

After two attacks in East Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a “strong” response. “Our response will be strong, quick and precise,” Netanyahu said the night before an emergency security cabinet meeting. “We are not looking for an escalation, but we are prepared for any scenario,” Netanyahu said in television footage released by his office.

Shortly after the two terrorist attacks, another Palestinian gunman tried to kill people. The man fired a shot in a restaurant near the West Bank city of Jericho that evening, the Israeli army said. Then he ran away.

So nobody was injured. Armed forces are currently looking for the man. Footage from a surveillance camera is said to show that the attacker was armed with an assault rifle, Israeli media reported. According to this, however, there were problems with his weapon, which probably prevented further shots and victims.

42 people arrested

A day after a bloody attack in front of a synagogue that left seven dead, violence between Israelis and Palestinians continued to escalate on Saturday. A 13-year-old Palestinian opened fire near the old city, according to police, injuring a father and his son.

On Friday evening, after the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath, a Palestinian attacker opened fire in front of a synagogue in east Jerusalem, killing seven people and injuring at least three before the 21-year-old was killed by police after a chase.

According to their own statements, the police arrested 42 people for questioning on Saturday. Among them are family members of the assassin, who came from East Jerusalem, as well as other residents of his district.

The attack in front of the synagogue was carried out a day after a raid by the Israeli army in the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, in which nine Palestinians were killed. According to the UN, it was the highest number of casualties in a single Israeli operation in the West Bank since the end of the Second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising from 2000 to 2005.

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