Two people were shot and wounded in an attack on Saturday (January 28th) in a neighborhood in East Jerusalem, reported the Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, the day after a shooting that left seven dead near a synagogue.
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Israeli police identified the assailant as a 13-year-old Palestinian. She said the suspect had been “neutralized” without specifying whether he was injured or dead.
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The MDA said it received a phone call at 10:42 a.m. “reporting a terrorist attack” in Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood on the edge of the Old City. “A 23-year-old man in serious condition and a 47-year-old man in moderate to serious condition with gunshot wounds to his upper body”said an MDA spokesperson.
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“We were quickly on the scene and saw two victims of an armed attack”, Fadi Dekidek, a doctor at MDA, said in a statement. He said the victims were “conscious” and were taken to hospital.
On Friday, East Jerusalem was the scene of a deadly attack, one of the bloodiest in years, in which a Palestinian killed seven people near a synagogue, before being shot dead.
