Seven people were killed and ten others injured in a shooting on the northern outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
According to the Hebrew State Ambulance Services, five people died and five others were taken to hospital, including a 70-year-old woman.
Israeli police called the shooting a "terrorist attack", saying it took place at a synagogue in Neve Ya'akov, which Israelis consider a neighborhood in Jerusalem, and which Palestinians and the international community consider in the occupied territories illegally annexed by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967.
Condemnation of the United States
The attack came a day after Israel's deadliest assault in years in the West Bank, which killed nine people in Jenin on Thursday.
"This operation is a response to the crime carried out by the occupying forces in Jenin and a natural response to the criminal actions of the occupation", declared in Gaza the spokesman of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Hazem Qassem, without claiming responsibility. responsibility for the attack.
The Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group, also welcomed this action without claiming paternity.
The US State Department quickly condemned the shooting, adding that it did not expect the schedule of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is due to visit Israel next week, to change.
With REUTERS
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