5 killed in Jerusalem synagogue shooting, Israeli rescue service says.
Shooting follows a deadly raid by Israeli military in the occupied West Bank on ThursdayIsraeli emergency service personnel and security forces stand near a covered body at the site of a reported attack near a synagogue in East Jerusalem on Friday.The shooting in the Jewish neighbourhood of Neve Yaakov followed a deadly raid by the Israeli military Thursday in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, with a 10th killed later north of Jerusalem.
Palestinian militants fired five rockets at Israel, the military said. Three were intercepted, one fell in an open area and another fell short inside Gaza. Israel carried out a series of airstrikes at what it said were militant targets. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, had earlier threatened revenge for the raid. Violent escalations in the West Bank have previously triggered retaliatory rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, which in turn has brought Israeli airstrikes down on the isolated and impoverished territory.
Palestinian Authority spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh said Abbas had decided to cut security co-ordination in "light of the repeated aggression against our people, and the undermining of signed agreements," referring to commitments from the Oslo peace process in the 1990s. He also said the Palestinians planned to file complaints with the UN Security Council, International Criminal Court and other international bodies.
"Obviously, we don't think this is the right step to take at this moment," she told reporters, saying the Palestinian vow to bring the matter to the UN and the International Criminal Court was problematic. Hamas' armed wing claimed four of the dead as members, while Islamic Jihad said three others belonged to the group. An earlier statement from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia loosely affiliated with Abbas' secular Fatah party, claimed one of the dead was a fighter named Izz al-Din Salahat, but it was unclear if he was among those seven militants.
Tensions have soared since Israel stepped up raids in the West Bank last spring, following a series of Palestinian attacks.
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