A 26-year old Israeli man has died after a Hamas gunman carried out a shooting attack in Jerusalem‘s Old City. A 26-year-old Israeli male was killed in a shooting attack in Jerusalem’s Old City by a Hamas gunman. Eliyahu David Kay, a recent immigrant from South Africa who served as a guide at the Western Wall, has been identified as the deceased. Authorities amended the victim’s age, which had previously been stated incorrectly. Four other individuals were injured in the incident, which occurred on Sunday morning near the Chain Gate entry to the al Aqsa mosque compound, popularly known as the Temple Mount, including a man whose condition was classified as serious.
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The assailant, who used an improvised automatic weapon commonly known as a Carlo, police say, was shot dead by police officers on the scene.
Omar Bar Lev, Israel’s public security minister, claimed the gunman came from the Shuafat district in east Jerusalem and was a member of Hamas’ political branch. The attacker was identified as Fadi Abu Shkaydam by Hamas, who described him as a brave martyr and a local leader of the movement in a statement. The act was “a response to attempts to desecrate Al Aqsa mosque,” according to the statement. Israel’s Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, informed government ministers that he was praying for the injured and that security forces were being prepared for “copycat assaults.”
“We need to be on heightened alert and prevent future attacks,” he said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. In a separate development Sunday, police now say they are treating a stabbing incident in the city of Jaffa as possible terrorism. A 67-year old man was moderately wounded, police said, after being stabbed by an unknown person who then ran away.
“The findings from the initial investigation reinforce suspicions that it was carried out for nationalist reasons,” a later police report said.Four days ago, a 16-year old Palestinian was shot dead after carrying out a stabbing attack on two Israeli border police in the Old City, police said.