MOSCOW, Jan 28 he most likely committed it alone, he is dead.
«Initial investigation … indicates that he carried out the attack himself. Evidence suggests that he is a 21-year-old resident of East Jerusalem,» reads the police message on Twitter. It is noted that the terrorist was neutralized, he is dead.
Israeli television i24NEWS previously published a photo of the man allegedly who fired, but then stated that during the identification of the terrorist, it turned out to be another man.
Friday evening, the Israeli police reported a terrorist attack at a synagogue in East Jerusalem. Local media reported that at least eight people were killed and 10 injured as a result of shooting in the Neve Yaakov area. Later, the police clarified that there were seven dead.
According to the Israeli media, the perpetrator drove by car to the synagogue in the northern Jewish settlement of Neve Yaakov in East Jerusalem and opened fire. The attack came a day after a massive raid by the Israeli army in the city of Jenin on the East Bank of the Jordan River, during which 10 Palestinians were killed. Hamas called the terrorist attack in Jerusalem a «reaction» to the Israeli raid in Jenin.