A gunman has killed seven people near a synagogue in an Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem before being fatally shot, in an escalation of violence following a deadly Israeli military raid in the West Bank a day earlier.
\nAccording to international media reports, after Friday\u2019s shooting, the Magen David Adom emergency service confirmed that seven people were dead, five of them men and two women, while hospitals were still treating three wounded, one in critical condition.
\nThe emergency response agency reported a total of 10 gunshot victims, including a 60-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy.
\n\u201cI heard a lot of bullets,\u201d Matanel Almalem, an 18-year-old student who lives near the synagogue, told the reporters.
\nAn earlier police statement said there was a \u201cterror attack in a synagogue in Jerusalem\u201d and that \u201cthe shooting terrorist was neutralised [killed]\u201d.
\nPolice later said the suspect was a 21-year-old resident of East Jerusalem who appeared to have acted alone in carrying out the attack in an area that Israel annexed to Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war.
\nIt said he had tried to flee by car but was pursued by police and shot dead.
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