Several people have been killed by gunfire in an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem. A police spokeswoman spoke of an attack that killed eight, and the rescue service of five dead. Several of the injured are in critical condition.
The attacker shot at people as they were leaving a synagogue, the newspaper reports Jerusalem Post. According to the police, he was shot dead.
The attack took place in the Neve Yaakov seal. East Jerusalem is inhabited mostly by Palestinians, but has been under the control of the Israeli government since the 1967 Six-Day War.
The violence in the region is thus increasing. According to Palestinian sources, nine people were killed in a raid by the Israeli military in the city of Jenin on Thursday in the West Bank, the Palestinian health authority in Ramallah said. Dozens more were injured, including four seriously. It was one of the deadliest military operations in the Palestinian Authority in years.
A few hours later, the Israeli military reported that two rockets had been fired from Palestinian territory and intercepted. Israel then said it attacked an underground production facility for military rockets belonging to the radical Islamic group Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday night with warplanes.
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