Attacker shot dead after one killed
A militant of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement yesterday opened fire in Jerusalem's Old City, killing one person and wounding three before he was shot dead, Israeli officials, police and medics said.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett ordered security to be boosted and called for people to be on "heightened alert" over the risk of further attacks.
The wounded, who included two civilians and two police officers, were rushed to Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital. One of them, a man in his 30s, died of his injuries, medical sources said without giving further details.
Police said the attacker had fired a "Carlo-type weapon", a type of submachine gun.
The Old City is in the Israeli-annexed eastern part of Jerusalem, which Palestinians claim as the capital of their future state.
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