Israel's prime minister pledged a 'strong, swift and precise' response to Friday's deadly shooting by a Palestinian gunman.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Saturday a "strong, swift and precise" response to Friday's deadly shooting by a Palestinian gunman near a synagogue on Jerusalem's outskirts, as its military sent more troops into the occupied West Bank.Thomson ReutersIsraeli security personnel work at the scene of a shooting outside Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday.
On Saturday, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy opened fire at a group of Israeli passersby wounding two, before he was shot and wounded by one of them, police said, in Silwan, a Palestinian neighbourhood that lies below Jerusalem's Old City walls. There was no sign, however, Israel was preparing for a large-scale operation and its brief cross-border exchange with Gaza ended with no casualties. On Monday U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is due to arrive for a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank, where clashes have worsened for months.Thursday's raid was the deadliest in years in the West Bank, where Israel has stepped up operations since a spate of deadly Palestinian street attacks in its cities last year.
The gunman, Khaire Alkam, was a 21-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem. Among the dead was a 14-year-old boy, police said. No group has claimed responsibility for the shooting and Alkam's father told Reuters his son had no links to militants "I told him 'Eli, don't go there. Eli don't go.' He got married only a year ago. A good neighbour, like a brother," Israel told Reuters. "He ran. I saw him fall there."
His father, Moussa Alkam, said he did not know whether his son was seeking revenge. "He is neither the first nor the last young man to get martyred and what he did is a source of pride," Alkam said.At a Jerusalem hospital treating casualties, Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he would seek to increase the number of gun permits.
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