Two people were injured in a gun attack outside Jerusalem's Old City, just hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in the city's eastern sector, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Saturday citing Israeli medics.
As stated in the report, Israeli medics said two people were injured in a gun attack outside Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday, just hours after a Palestinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in the city's eastern sector.
"A 23-year-old man is in critical condition, and a 47-year-old man is in moderate to serious condition, both with gunshot wounds to their upper bodies," said a spokesman for Israel's Magen David Adom rescue emergency response service, the report said.
The incident in the Silwan neighbourhood of east Jerusalem was described as a "shooting terror attack" by the MDA, according to the report.
It stated that at 10:42 am, it received an emergency call about the attack (0842 GMT), the report said.
"We arrived quickly and discovered two gunshot victims," said MDA medic Fadi Dekidek in a statement. He added that the victims were "fully conscious" and had been taken to the hospital, per the report.
Police stated that the suspect had been "neutralised," but did not specify whether he was dead or injured, the report further added.
The shooting occurred just hours after a Palestinian gunman murdered seven people outside an east Jerusalem synagogue on Friday night, in one of the city's deadliest attacks in a year.
According to the country's foreign ministry, the attack was the deadliest on Israelis since a shooting in a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem in 2008.
The carnage, which occurred on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, signalled yet another dramatic escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It was the deadliest attack on Israelis in years, raising the prospect of further bloodshed. According to media reports, large crowds cheered and waved Palestinian flags in Ramallah, fired guns into the air, honked horns, and distributed sweets.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a security assessment and "immediate actions." Crowds chanted "Death to Terrorists" outside Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital, where some of the injured were being treated.
Tensions were already high following Thursday's raid in Jenin's West Bank refugee camp, killing nine people, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman.
(With Inputs From Agencies)