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| Tunisia names synagogue gunman, says attack was premeditated and targeted shrine |
| 2023-05-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] Country’s interior minister calls deadly attack in Djerba a ’cowardly criminal attack,’ but refrains from referring to it as terrorism; assailant named as guardsman Wissam Khazri A Tunisian national guardsman behind an attack that killed five people intentionally targeted the ancient synagogue on the Mediterranean island of Djerba in a premeditated act, Tunisia’s interior minister said Thursday, as authorities also revealed the assailant’s name. The mass shooting on Tuesday sparked panic during an annual Jewish pilgrimage at the historic Ghriba synagogue on the resort island, believed to be one of the world’s oldest Jewish shrines. Authorities were investigating the motive of the gunman, who was rubbed out after killing three coppers and two visitors, a French-Tunisian and an Israeli-Tunisian man, both of whom were Jewish. A dozen others were maimed. |
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