After less than 14 hours, Jerusalem is back under terror attack.
A 13-year-old Palestinian, in the mixed Silwan neighborhood of the city, opened fire on a group of Israelis in a street not far from the Wailing Wall and in full Shabbat, wounding two of them, father and son.
Israel has raised the state of alert throughout the country, with further deployments of forces in the West Bank (3 battalions) and the garrison of the police in public places in the country.
"Our reaction - Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said as he opened the meeting of the Defense Council in Tel Aviv - will be strong, fast and precise".
"We will seal and demolish the houses of the terrorists with an accelerated process", he added, confirming the new provisions.
"We don't want escalations - he concluded - but we are ready for any new scenario".
Also under discussion is an extension of permits for the carrying of weapons and more incisive actions against the families and friends of terrorists.
The bomber this morning, according to Kan TV, is called Muhammad Aliyat, originally from Silwan and, according to the reconstruction of the police and as seen in a video from a surveillance camera released on social media, he waited hidden among the cars that a group of Israelis passed on a street in the neighborhood.
So he cocked his gun and opened fire.
The group dispersed, then the reaction of the two Israelis - including one of the wounded who is an off-duty soldier - shot the perpetrator of the attack.
He is now being watched in the hospital.
The new attack, in response to the Israeli raid on Jenin which killed 9 Palestinians,
it further exacerbated the tension still high after yesterday evening's Palestinian attack, at the beginning of Shabbat, which killed seven Israelis twice near a synagogue in Neve Yaacov, an Orthodox neighborhood northeast of Jerusalem.
Among the victims also a married couple, Eli and Natalie Mizrahi, who took to the streets to help the first wounded without realizing that the bomber was still in action.
One of those killed - as announced by President Volodomyr Zelensky - is a Ukrainian woman living in Israel for work.
And there's also a 14 year old.
The bombing sparked international outrage.
Orthodox neighborhood northeast of Jerusalem.
Among the victims also a married couple, Eli and Natalie Mizrahi, who took to the streets to help the first wounded without realizing that the bomber was still in action.
One of those killed - as announced by President Volodomyr Zelensky - is a Ukrainian woman living in Israel for work.
And there's also a 14 year old.
The bombing sparked international outrage.
Orthodox neighborhood northeast of Jerusalem.
Among the victims also a married couple, Eli and Natalie Mizrahi, who took to the streets to help the first wounded without realizing that the bomber was still in action.
One of those killed - as announced by President Volodomyr Zelensky - is a Ukrainian woman living in Israel for work.
And there's also a 14 year old.
The bombing sparked international outrage.
Moscow has called on the parties to "maximum restraint", while the EU, while describing itself as "shocked by the attack", underlined, with reference to Israel's operations in the West Bank, that "lethal force must only be used as a last resort, when it is absolutely unavoidable to protect life".
In the hours following last night's attack, the police arrested 42 people, all residents of the a-Tur neighborhood in East Jerusalem, where the attacker Alkam Khairi (21 years old) came from.
Relatives of the latter were also among those arrested.
The double attack in Jerusalem was justified by Hamas and Jihad with the events in Jenin in the West Bank where 9 Palestinians were killed in armed clashes during an army counter-terrorism operation.
Abu Mazen's Palestinian leadership also blamed Israel for "full responsibility for the dangerous escalation on the ground" and said it would continue "to implement the decisions taken" including the end of security coordination with the Jewish state.
Then, also in view of the arrival of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the region at the beginning of the week, he warned "the occupation government against continuing this approach, which will lead to further deterioration that threatens the security of the entire region". .
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on his citizens "beyond dissent" to "maintain unity".
And protests against the Netanyahu government's judicial reform in Tel Aviv, Haifa,
