Four Israelis have been killed at a Jerusalem synagogue attack and
several others have been injured in what police say was a "terrorist
attack".
Three of the victims held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and the fourth
man was a British-Israeli national, police said.
According to the security officials, the attack was carried out by two
armed men but the police was able to kill them inside the church.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has pledged to respond
with a "heavy hand", and again accused Western-backed Palestinian
President, Mahmoud Abbas, of inciting violence in Jerusalem.
Abbas condemned the attack, which comes after weeks of unrest fuelled
in part by a dispute over Jerusalem's holiest shrine.
A worshipper at the service in the Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in an
ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of West Jerusalem said that about 25
people were praying when shooting broke out.
"I looked up and saw someone shooting people at point-blank range.
Then someone came in with what looked like a butcher's knife and he
went wild," the witness, Yosef Posternak, told Israel Radio.
The area has been sealed off and those injured are being treated in a
Jerusalem hospital.
The city of Jerusalem has experienced several attack in recent weeks,
with two deadly attacks by Palestinian militants on pedestrians in the
city.
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