The incident comes a day after a Palestinian killed seven people near a synagogue following Israel’s deadly raid in the Jenin refugee camp.
Two people have been injured in a shooting outside the Old City in the Silwan neighbourhood, just outside occupied East Jerusalem’s old, walled city
An MDA spokesperson said two gunshot victims, a father, 47, and son, 23, were in serious condition with “gunshot wounds to their upper body”.
A police spokesman told Army Radio that Saturday’s incident was a “terrorist attack” and that the assailant,
who was “neutralised and injured”, is a 13-year-old Palestinian boy from occupied East Jerusalem. Police said they arrested 42 Palestinians following Friday’s attack.
The incident comes a day after a Palestinian attacker killed seven people near a synagogue on the outskirts of the city.
On Thursday, Israel carried out a deadly raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Ten Palestinians were killed, including an elderly woman,
after dozens of Israeli soldiers attacked a house the army said housed suspected fighters, leading to several hours of intense confrontations.