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Palestinian shooter kills 7 near Jerusalem synagogue
2023-01-28
[Hot Air] The attacked happened Friday night a little after 8pm in Jerusalem:

Seven people were shot and killed and at least three others were wounded in a terror shooting attack at a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, police and medics said Friday night.

According to police, the terrorist arrived by car at 8:13 p.m. at a building used as a synagogue in the neighborhood in northern Jerusalem and opened fire at people outside the synagogue and other passersby.

He then fled the scene by car toward the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina — several hundred meters away — where he encountered officers who were called to the scene.

Police said the terrorist — a resident of East Jerusalem — was shot dead after he exited the car and opened fire on the officers while trying to escape on foot...

According to Channel 12 news, the terrorist first shot an elderly woman in the street, then encountered a motorcycle rider and shot him, before reaching the Ateret Avraham synagogue and opening fire at people outside.

The Jerusalem Post reports that this is the shooter: "The name of the perpetrator was Khairy Alqam (not the other way around), 21 years old, from Jerusalem."

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Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Restraint? What a novel concept!

Fog o’ war: The identification of the shooter as Khairy Alqam came from Palestinian media. The actual gentleman in the photo, Fadi Ayesh of Bethleham, stepped forward today to say he didn’t do it. Link.

Ayash took to Facebook after the attack, writing in a post: “I am Fadi, I live in Bethlehem. I did not perform the operation, nor was involved in the operation.”

“God bless the martyrs,” he added.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-01-28 11:49  

#3  I recommend incremental steps leading to restraint.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-01-28 06:50  

#2  The Times of Israel:

A distraught witness described the massacre to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene, saying the terrorist had nearly killed him. The shooter is believed to have waited outside the synagogue and opened fire on worshipers as they left after Shabbat services.

“I came outside and I saw people shouting, people running, two people were on the ground, and over there another one was on the ground,” he said, gesturing in the direction of the casualties, struggling to speak. “The bastard was standing in front of me with a weapon, almost killed me. I don’t know how he didn’t kill me. I crawled back into the house.”

“If I had been armed I could have prevented three or four deaths. I’m not armed. They won’t let me have a weapon,” the unidentified witness said, adding that five members of his family, including his brother, had been killed in a terror attack in Jerusalem in 2002. “I can never forget it. It needs to stop.”

“We don’t want to take the law into our own hands,” he said in footage broadcast by Channels 12 and 13.

Ben Gvir told him, “I hope that soon we’ll change the policy for weapons. There need to be weapons for more civilians.”
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-01-28 03:09  

#1  You beat me to the story again, Besoeker. Well done!
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-01-28 03:05  

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