a group of Palestinians from their East Jerusalem homes in favor of Jewish settlers, leading to a bloody 11-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist militant group that rules the Gaza Strip.After Friday night’s shooting, Israeli officials offered mixed messages. Even as Netanyahu pledged a response, he also urged ordinary Israelis “not to take the law into their own hands.
Meanwhile, celebrations of the massacre erupted across cities and towns in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza. A Twitter account affiliated with Hamas postedHamas politician Mushir al-Masri congratulated the East Jerusalem attacker on Friday, saying the shooting was “a quick response” to the deadly Israeli military raid in Jenin the day before, and was “evidence of the vitality and readiness of the resistance.
U.S. officials headed to the region found themselves in the middle of the tensions. CIA Director William J. Burns is in Israel this week and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit Monday and Tuesday.
“The notion of people being targeted as they leave a house of worship is abhorrent,” he said, adding that it was “particularly tragic” that the attack happened on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.In a call with Netanyahu on Friday, President Biden “made clear that this was an attack against the civilized world,” and stressed the “iron-clad U.S. commitment to Israel’s security,” according to a White House readout.
Israeli police said the gunman entered the synagogue in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov at around 8:15 p.m. After opening fire at worshipers, he ran into the street, where he took shots at pedestrians. He tried to flee by car before Israeli security officers killed him at the scene. The gunman’s name has not yet been released.
NOT HAMAS ! WATCH THE VIDEO ..PALESTINIANS EN MASSE !
WWJD
Bloody terrorists
Sick.
Lowlifes murdering innocent Jewish worshipers in a synagogue on International Holocaust Day is a reminder that Palestinian Arabs supported the Nazis in WW2.
Didn’t some Israelis just do something bad to their mosques?
Please help me! My name is Lin donglong, an employee of China telecom fuzhou branch. Company manager huang fei (communist party of China) organized the leadership of the gang of evil forces brutal persecution: surveillance location, insult,abuse, framed to take nude photos of me
ZIONIST ISRAEL, don't do to others that you don't want to be done to you.
Revenge….. K..I..L..L as much Israelis as you can. Takecare of common people but don’t leave a single soldier of them
What were they expecting when they invaded a land that’s not theirs!
They'll be all right.
Why can't people live peacefully
The shooter was a 13 year old Palestinian boy who saw two Jews wearing kipa and tried to kill them. The two shot were a father and son, both paramedics minding their own business. Antisemitism and hate is taught at a young age. But it's taught by adults.
Civilization is Crumbling.
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