Seven shot dead in synagogue outside Jerusalem

• A shooting incident at a synagogue in Neve Ya’akov resulted in seven fatalities and ten injuries.
• The incident occurred on the Jewish Sabbath.
• Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack but stopped short of claiming it.

Israel’s foreign ministry reported that a shooting incident at a synagogue outside of Jerusalem on Friday resulted in seven fatalities and ten injuries.

Five individuals were confirmed dead, according to Israel’s ambulance service, and five others were injured and sent to hospitals, including a 70-year-old woman.

According to Israeli police, it was a “terror attack” that happened in a synagogue in Neve Ya’akov, which Israelis regard as a neighborhood within Jerusalem but which Palestinians and the majority of the international community view as an occupied territory that was illegally annexed following the Middle East war of 1967.

The incident occurs on the Jewish Sabbath, one day after the deadliest raid in the West Bank in recent memory.

In Gaza, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told the media: “This operation is a response to the crime conducted by the occupation in Jenin and a natural response to the occupation’s criminal actions”, though he stopped short of claiming the attack.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad supported the attack but did not take credit for it.

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