Israeli police arrested a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in connection with a shooting in Jerusalem on Saturday.
Video of the incident released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry appeared to show a boy opening fire on a small group of men walking on the street near the City of David archaeological site.
A 45-year-old father and his 22-year-old son were injured and taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition. The attacker was also shot by two nearby civilians carrying licensed weapons.
Police arrived at the scene within a few minutes, arrested the boy and seized his gun. He was held in a police ambulance while receiving treatment.
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The boy allegedly came from East Jerusalem, according to The Jerusalem Post. He traveled by bus to the area, then walked down the street looking for victims before finally opening fire.
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“We quickly arrived at the scene and saw the victims. They were fully conscious and sustained gunshot wounds to the upper body,” said MDA paramedic Fadi Dekidak. “We quickly put him in an intensive care unit and evacuated them with life-saving medical treatment to Shaare Zedek Hospital.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the shooting that his government’s response would be “strong, swift and precise.”
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“We are not looking for an escalation, but we are prepared for any scenario,” Netanyahu told AFP.
The US Department of Defense said officials “are in close contact with our Israeli partners and stand firm with them in the face of this attack.”
Security and rescue personnel work at a scene where a shooting attack is suspected to have occurred, a police spokesman said, outside the Old City of Jerusalem on January 28, 2023.
(Reuters/Ammar Awad)
The shooting followed an attack on a synagogue on Friday night that killed at least seven people and injured several others, including at least one child. That attack was also reportedly carried out by a Palestinian outside of East Jerusalem.
An Israeli army spokesman said on Saturday that they would reinforce forces in the occupied West Bank, the BBC reported.
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Police chased the suspect and shot him before he could walk away.
A person is carried on a stretcher to a scene where a suspected shooting attack incident occurred, a police spokesman said, outside the Old City of Jerusalem on January 28, 2023.
(Reuters/Ammar Awad)
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides condemned the attack in a tweet, calling it a “horrific act of violence.”
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Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said the attack was a “confirmation of the continuation of the resistance action in all the occupied territories and in response to the occupation’s crimes against our people in the holy places.” Video posted online showed what appeared to be Palestinians celebrating the attack as retribution for a deadly missile attack on Thursday.
