Jerusalem shooting: 13-year-old held for shooting father-son duo in Israel synagogue
Jerusalem, January 28: A 13-year-old Palestinian boy has been held after he shot and injured a father and son in east Jerusalem on Saturday.
The development came hours after a gunman killed seven outside a synagogue, in one of the deadliest such attacks in years.
The two shootings marked yet another dramatic escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defying international calls for calm.
The latest shooting occurred Saturday morning in Silwan, just outside the old, walled city in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, according to police.
A 47-year-old father and his 23-year-old son were shot in the upper body and taken to the hospital, according to police and medics.
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Police had previously announced the arrest of 42 people in connection with the synagogue attack on Friday.
A 21-year-old Palestinian resident of east Jerusalem drove up to the synagogue in the Neve Yaakov neighbourhood and opened fire during the Jewish Sabbath and on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The attack occurred a day after one of the deadliest army raids in the occupied West Bank in roughly two decades, as well as rocket fire from militants in Gaza and Israeli retaliatory air strikes.
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- With inputs from agencies
