A Palestinian gunman opened fire outside an east Jerusalem synagogue Friday night, killing five people and wounding five others in one of the deadliest attacks on Israelis in years, medical officials said. The attack was halted when the gunman was shot by police.
The killings took place a day after Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians in a raid in the West Bank raid in years and raised the likelihood of further bloodshed.
Police said the gunman was "neutralized," a term that typically means he was killed. There was no official confirmation, however. Scuffles between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters erupted after the funeral for a 22-year-old Palestinian north of Jerusalem and elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, but calm prevailed in the contested capital and in the blockaded Gaza Strip for most of the day.
"We're certainly deeply concerned by this escalating cycle of violence in the West Bank as well as the rockets that have been apparently fired from Gaza," Kirby said. "And of course, we condemn all acts that only further escalate tensions."
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