Jerusalem was rocked on Saturday morning by the second shooting in less than 24 hours, following two days of spiralling violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Police said that a 13-year-old resident of East Jerusalem had shot a father and a son near the historic Old City, and that he had then been “neutralised and injured”. Israel’s emergency service said that the two victims had been hospitalised with upper body wounds.
The shooting in the Silwan neighbourhood came just hours after a Palestinian gunman shot dead seven Israelis and injured three more near a synagogue on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Friday, in the deadliest shooting in the holy city since 2008.