The useless man has been named as Eliyahu David Kay, a current immigrant from South Africa who labored as a information on the Western Wall. Authorities corrected the sufferer’s age that they’d earlier reported.
4 different folks — amongst them a person whose situation was described as critical — have been injured within the incident, which occurred on Sunday morning close to the Chain Gate entrance to the al Aqsa mosque compound, also referred to as the Temple Mount.
The assailant, who used an improvised automated weapon generally referred to as a Carlo, police say, was shot useless by cops on the scene.
Israel’s public safety minister Omar Bar Lev stated the gunman was from the neighborhood of Shuafat in east Jerusalem and a member of the political wing of Hamas.
Hamas issued an announcement figuring out the attacker as Fadi Abu Shkaydam, calling him a heroic martyr and describing him as an area chief of the motion.
It stated the assault was “a response to the makes an attempt to desecrate Al Aqsa mosque.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett instructed authorities ministers he was praying for the restoration of the wounded and had instructed safety forces to organize for potential “copycat assaults.”
“We have to be on heightened alert and forestall future assaults,” he stated at first of the weekly Cupboard assembly.
In a separate growth Sunday, police now say they’re treating a stabbing incident within the metropolis of Jaffa as potential terrorism.
A 67-year outdated man was reasonably wounded, police stated, after being stabbed by an unknown one that then ran away.
“The findings from the preliminary investigation reinforce suspicions that it was carried out for nationalist causes,” a later police report stated.
4 days in the past, a 16-year outdated Palestinian was shot useless after finishing up a stabbing assault on two Israeli border police within the Previous Metropolis, police stated.
