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| Two men armed with axes, knives and a pistol killed four Israelis and wounded several others in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday in the worst such attack in years. | Two men armed with axes, knives and a pistol killed four Israelis and wounded several others in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday in the worst such attack in years. |
| The Palestinian assailants were killed in shootout with police at the scene, a synagogue in the ultra-orthodox Har Nof district in west Jerusalem. One police officer was wounded in the exchange of fire. | |
| Violence in Israel and the Palestinian Territories has surged over the past few weeks. Attacks on synagogues are however unusual in the history of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. | |
| The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, called the attack a “brutal murder of Jews who came to pray” and blamed both the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for incitement he said had led to the attack. | |
| “This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen, incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” he said, according to a statement posted to his Facebook page | |
| Netanyahu - who is to meet with his security chiefs on Tuesday afternoon - said Israel would “respond with a heavy hand” to the attack. | |
| The US secretary of state, John Kerry, described the attack an act of “pure terror” and called on Palestinian leaders to condemn the attack. | |
| Hamas praised the attack but stopped short of claiming responsibility. A statement said it was a “response to continued Israeli crimes, the killing, desecrating al-Aqsa”. | |
| Five Israelis and a foreign visitor have been deliberately run over and killed or stabbed to death by Palestinians in the past month. About a dozen Palestinians have also been killed, including those accused of carrying out those attacks. | Five Israelis and a foreign visitor have been deliberately run over and killed or stabbed to death by Palestinians in the past month. About a dozen Palestinians have also been killed, including those accused of carrying out those attacks. |
| Residents trace the violence in Jerusalem back to July when a Palestinian teenager was burned to death by Jewish assailants, an alleged revenge attack for the abduction and killing of three Jewish teens by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank. | Residents trace the violence in Jerusalem back to July when a Palestinian teenager was burned to death by Jewish assailants, an alleged revenge attack for the abduction and killing of three Jewish teens by Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank. |
| The summer war in Gaza and a row over access to a Jerusalem compound sacred to Muslims and Jews alike have also been triggers for violence. | The summer war in Gaza and a row over access to a Jerusalem compound sacred to Muslims and Jews alike have also been triggers for violence. |