Two wounded in Jerusalem shooting, police say, after synagogue attack that left seven dead

What we know about the deadly synagogue attack in Jerusalem 1:48

(CNN) --

Two people are wounded in a shooting in Jerusalem on Saturday, according to emergency services.

This new incident comes a day after a gunman killed at least seven people near a synagogue in the city.

The two men injured in the City of David area of ​​Jerusalem on Saturday, a 22-year-old and a 40-year-old, are father and son, according to police.

A 13-year-old boy who police say shot and wounded the couple was "knocked down and wounded" by "two bystanders carrying licensed weapons."

Tensions in Israel and the Palestinian territories remain high after Friday's shooting, which police chief Yaakov Shabtai described as "one of the worst terror attacks in recent years."

The attacker in that incident was also later killed by police forces, according to police.

“As a result of the shooting attack, 7 civilians were determined dead and another 3 were injured with additional degrees of injury,” police said.

• Seven dead, several wounded in Jerusalem synagogue attack, Israeli officials say

Five of the shooting victims were pronounced dead at the scene, Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency rescue service said: four men and one woman.

Five people were transported to hospitals, where another man and a woman were pronounced dead.

Among the injured is a 15-year-old boy, the MDA said.

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The attack happened around 8:15 p.m. local time on Friday near a synagogue on Neve Yaakov Street, according to a police statement.

Shabtai said the gunman “started shooting anyone who got in his way.

He got in his car and went on a killing spree with a handgun at close range.”

He then fled the scene in a vehicle and died after a shootout with police forces, police said.

Israeli security personnel work near the scene of Saturday's shooting.

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The attacker, police said in a statement, was a 21-year-old resident of East Jerusalem.

He appears to have acted alone, according to police.

East Jerusalem is a predominantly Palestinian area of ​​the city, which was captured by Israel in 1967.

Referring to Saturday's attack, a community leader said the 13-year-old suspected shooter knew the 16-year-old Palestinian who died of gunshot wounds the previous day.

Jawad Siam, director of the Silwanic nonprofit organization in east Jerusalem, told CNN that the suspect's family denied that their 13-year-old son was responsible for Saturday's attack, which occurred near the Al-Aqsa Mosque. in Silwan, east of Jerusalem.

According to Siam, the 13-year-old suspect was a neighbor of a 16-year-old Palestinian who died of gunshot wounds at the hospital on Friday night.

The 16-year-old was shot on Wednesday by Israeli police.

Of the two injured on Saturday, the 22-year-old man is now in serious but stable condition, under anesthesia and in the intensive care unit, while his 47-year-old father is in moderate to stable condition.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged people not to carry out revenge attacks on Friday night.

“I call on the people not to take justice into their own hands.

For this we have an army, police and security forces.

They act and will act according to the cabinet's instructions,” he said.

Israeli security forces and emergency services personnel gather in a cordoned off area in the predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan in Jerusalem, where an attacker reportedly shot and wounded two people, on January 28, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Friday's incident comes a day after the deadliest day for Palestinians in the West Bank in more than a year, according to CNN records.

On Thursday, Israeli forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded several more in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, prompting the Palestinian Authority to suspend security coordination with Israel.

A tenth Palestinian was killed in what Israel police called a "violent riot" near Jerusalem.

Overnight on Friday morning local time, Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip after rockets were fired towards Israel.

Israel's controversial National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the site of the attack on Friday night, telling angrily chanting people that it "cannot continue like this."

“I can tell you, [the people who sing] are right.

The burden is on us.

It cannot continue like this,” said Ben Gvir, who also leads the far-right Jewish Power party.

Some people on the scene were singing support for Ben Gvir and saying, “You are our voice, we support you.”

Hadas Gold and the CNN team, who were also at the scene of the shooting Friday night, heard what sounded like celebratory gunshots and car horns in the nearby predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina.