Israeli safety forces and emergency service personnel collect at a cordoned-off space in Jerusalem’s predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan, the place police say an assailant shot and wounded two individuals on Saturday.

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TEL AVIV, Israel – Israeli police say a 13-year-old Palestinian shot and wounded two individuals in East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, only a day after a Palestinian gunman opened fireplace exterior of a synagogue in Jerusalem initially of the Jewish sabbath, killing seven people.

Police say the attacker opened fireplace close to the historic Old City of Jerusalem exterior a Jewish settlement web site in a Palestinian neighborhood. The wounded males, of their 20s and 40s, had been rushed to the hospital. Police mentioned the gunman was shot and wounded.

On Friday night time, initially of the Jewish sabbath, a Palestinian gunman opened fireplace exterior a synagogue, killing seven individuals and wounding three others. Police killed the gunman and have arrested dozens of his kin.

Witnesses have spoken to Israeli media about Friday’s capturing. They mentioned the attacker opened fireplace at individuals on the road exterior the synagogue. Some Israelis who heard the photographs and rushed to the scene had been additionally killed, together with a husband and spouse who had been at a Friday night time Shabbat dinner, in addition to a motorist who stopped to assist the wounded.

Friday’s assault was the deadliest in opposition to Israelis in years, and befell a day after the Israeli navy conducted its deadliest raid within the occupied West Bank in years, leaving at the least 9 Palestinians lifeless, together with militants and a 61-year-old lady.

Israeli police say they’re on excessive alert for extra violence.

President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the Friday assault, saying he would supply “all appropriate means of support to the Government and People of Israel over the coming days.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is about to journey to the area this weekend.