BREAKING: A gunman opened fire near a synagogue in east Jerusalem, wounding 10 people before he was shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said.
Palestinians holding a Hamas flag, protest by the Dome of the Rock Mosque at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. The protest was a day after the deadliest Israeli raid in decades and raised the prospect of a major flare-up in fighting.
Scuffles between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters erupted after the funeral for a 22-year-old Palestinian north of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, but calm prevailed in the contested capital and in the blockaded Gaza Strip. “We’re certainly deeply concerned by this escalating cycle of violence in the West Bank as well as the rockets that have been apparently fired from Gaza,” Kirby said. “And of course, we condemn all acts that only further escalate tensions.”
The Palestinians’ rockets were fired toward southern Israel, while Israel’s nonlethal airstrikes were on targets in Gaza, such as training camps and an underground rocket-manufacturing site. “Thank God it was good and there were no problems after that cursed day,” he said, referring to Thursday’s events.Tensions have soared since Israel stepped up raids in the West Bank last spring, following a series of Palestinian attacks. Jenin, which was an important a militant stronghold during the 2000-2005 intifada and has again emerged as one, has been the focus of many of the Israeli operations. Among the dead in Thursday’s raid were seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.
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