Two Israelis wounded in occupied East Jerusalem taking pictures | Israel-Palestine battle Information

The incident comes a day after a Palestinian killed seven individuals close to a synagogue following Israel’s lethal raid within the Jenin refugee camp.

Two individuals have been wounded in a taking pictures assault in occupied East Jerusalem, officers mentioned, a day after seven individuals had been killed in an assault close to a synagogue within the metropolis.

A father, 47, and son, 23, had been in critical situation with “gunshot wounds to their higher physique”, a spokesperson for Israel’s rescue emergency response service (MDA) mentioned, after the taking pictures within the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, close to Jerusalem’s Outdated Metropolis.

A police spokesman instructed Israel’s Military Radio that Saturday’s incident was a “terrorist assault” and that the assailant, who was “neutralised and injured”, was a 13-year-old Palestinian from occupied East Jerusalem.

The incident got here a day after a Palestinian attacker shot useless seven individuals close to a synagogue on the outskirts of town.

On Thursday, Israel carried out a lethal raid on the Jenin refugee camp within the occupied West Financial institution. Ten Palestinians had been killed, together with an aged lady, after dozens of Israeli troopers attacked a home the military mentioned housed suspected fighters, resulting in a number of hours of intense confrontations.

It was one of many deadliest Israeli military raids within the occupied West Financial institution because the second Intifada, or rebellion, of 2000 to 2005.

A 22-year-old Palestinian man was shot by Israeli forces within the city of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, in a separate incident on Thursday.

Israel additionally launched a number of air assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip in a single day on Thursday.

Native sources in Gaza instructed Al Jazeera that Israeli warplanes hit the al-Maghazi refugee camp within the centre of the territory, with at the very least 13 assaults by the early hours of Friday.

Police mentioned they arrested 42 Palestinians following Friday’s assault.

In a separate assertion, police mentioned the pressure had been positioned on the “highest stage” of alert following the assault. The Israeli military mentioned it had deployed one other battalion to the occupied West Financial institution on Saturday, including a whole bunch extra troops to a presence already on heightened alert within the occupied territory.

Earlier than Friday’s taking pictures, at the very least 30 Palestinians had been killed this yr and the Palestinian Authority, which has restricted governing powers within the occupied West Financial institution, mentioned it was suspending a safety cooperation association with Israel.

Final yr, because the Israeli army intensified its arrest raids following a string of lethal Palestinian assaults inside Israel, at the very least 150 Palestinians had been killed within the occupied West Financial institution and East Jerusalem. It was the best annual dying toll for greater than a decade and a half. Thirty individuals had been killed in Palestinian assaults towards Israelis final yr.