In the attack in the Old City, one Israeli was killed and three others injured. According to the police, an alleged Palestinian attacker opened fire. The assassin was shot dead by security forces. In addition to a rifle, he also had a knife with him.
A police spokesman described the shooter as a resident of East Jerusalem and said he was armed with a submachine gun. Israel’s Minister of Homeland Security, Omer Bar-Lev, announced on Sunday that the attacker was a member of the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas.
A spokesman for Hamas, which ruled the Gaza Strip, welcomed the attack in Jerusalem. “This holy city will continue to fight until the foreign occupier is driven out, and will not submit to the hated reality of the occupation.”
The Temple Mount with the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam. It is also holy to Jews because two Jewish temples used to stand there.
Source From: Nachrichten
