OCCUPIED JERUSLALEM — A Palestinian man opened fire
Sunday in
Jerusalem's Old City, killing one person and wounding three before he
was shot dead, Israeli forces said.
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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett ordered security to be
boosted and called for people to be on "heightened alert" over the
risk of further attacks.
The four wounded, two police officers and two civilians,
were rushed to Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital, where one of the civilian victims
died.
"This morning there was a serious shooting attack in
the Old City of Jerusalem," Bennett said in a statement. "At the
moment we have one dead and three wounded.
The victim was identified as Eliyahu Kay, a 25-year-old
immigrant from South Africa, who worked as a guide.
Police said the attacker had fired a "Carlo-type
weapon", a type of submachine gun.
The Old City is in the Israeli-annexed eastern part of
Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of their future state.
Israel's Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev said the
attacker was a Palestinian living in the Shuafat neighbourhood in East
Jerusalem.
"He was a member of Hamas, the political branch, not
the armed wing," Bar-Lev told Israel's Kan television channel, saying the gunman's
wife had travelled abroad three days ago, while his son was also out of the
country.
Police identified him as a 42-year-old east Jerusalem
resident.
Hamas identified the attacker as Fadi Abu Shkhaydam,
congratulated him and hailed the "continuation" of the fight to
"liberate" Jerusalem.
But Hamas did not specifically claim the attack, which came
six months to the day since the end of an 11-day war in
Gaza with Israel in
May.
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