..
Palestinian gunman kills 7, injures 10 (3?) near Jerusalem synagogue
By Bruce Golding
January 27, 2023 3:25pm Updated
A Palestinian gunman killed seven worshippers outside a Jerusalem synagogue Friday night in apparent retaliation for an Israeli military raid in the West Bank a day earlier.
The Sabbath-eve slaughter, which also left three wounded, marked the deadliest attack on Israelis in more than a decade.
One of the slain victims was a 70-year-old woman and several others were in their 60s. A 15-year-old boy was among the wounded.
News of the bloodshed sparked celebrations by Palestinians in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, where people fired bullets into the air, shouted “God is great!” and handed out sweets.
In addition to the carnage in Neve Yaakov, a religious Jewish settlement in east Jersualem, a barrage of rockets was fired into Israel from Gaza, prompting a series of Israeli airstrikes.
But no casualties were reported from those attacks, which appeared to be intentionally limited so they wouldn’t provoke an all-out war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters that he’d held a security assessment and decided on “immediate actions,” with his Security Cabinet to discuss any further response on Saturday night, after the end of Sabbath.
Netanyahu said Israel would act with “determination and composure
but declined to elaborate.
He also called on the public to not seek out vigilante justice.
Friday’s violence came after nine people, including seven Palestinian militants and a 61-year-old woman, were killed during an Israeli raid in the town of Jenin.
That incident marked the deadliest single raid in the West Bank in two decades and was followed by the fatal shooting of a 10th Palestinian during fighting in Jerusalem.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the shooting but a spokesman for the Hamas terrorist group that runs Gaza called it “a revenge and natural response” to the Israeli raid in Jenin.
Israeli police said the Jerusalem shooter fled in a car after opening fire and was killed during a gun battle after cops chased him down.
He was identified as a 21-year-old east Jerusalem resident who apparently acted alone.
But Jerusalem Police Chief Doron Turjeman vowed an “aggressive and significant” investigation to find any accomplices.
Those killed included five men and two women, including several who were 60 or older, according to Israel’s MADA rescue service.
A wounded, 15-year-old boy was recovering after surgery, according to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital.
The attack came ahead of a planned Sunday visit to the region by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the US strongly condemned the shootings and was “shocked and saddened by the loss of life.”
Jean-Pierre also noted that the killings came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“The United States will extend our full support to the government and people of Israel,” she said.
Fulani Herdsmen Kill Farmer, Son, Abduct Others
January 24, 2023
The victims were gruesomely murdered in their farms in what was described as an unprovoked attack.
Fulani Herdsmen
Palpable tension has gripped residents of the Toru-Angiama community in Patani Local Government Area of Delta State as suspected herdsmen on Monday hacked a man and his son to death.
It was gathered that the deceased persons were found lifeless in their farms and were discovered to have been butchered to death by the attackers.
One other member of the community sustained gunshot wounds while several others were said to have been abducted by the herdsmen.
According to residents of the area, the herders had been intimidating and harassing them in the area in recent times.
“Fulani herdsmen on Monday invaded Toru-Angiama in Patani LGA, Delta state and killed a man and son.
“The man identified as Egbejule and his son had gone to their farm when they met the herdsmen destroying their crops,” a villager told SaharaReporters.
The genocide by Islamic murderous gangs has now reached into the southernmost parts of Nigeria. The government must be very happy.
Delta State, Nigeria
No comments:
Post a Comment