TIRANA, January 28 – The Albanian Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has reacted to the terrorist attack on a Synagogue in Jerusalem, where 7 people were killed and 3 others were injured.
In a reaction on Twitter, the ministry condemned the attack, while consoling the families of the victims.
“Shocked by the terrible terrorist attack on a Jerusalem Synagogue. The fact that this attack occurred on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day adds even more to the disgust we feel for such criminal acts. Our prayers go out to the families of the victims and to those injured in this attack,” the statement said.
In the meantime a Palestinian gunman opened fire in east Jerusalem on Saturday, wounding at least two people, less than a day after another assailant killed seven outside a synagogue in the deadliest attack in the city since 2008.
The shooting in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in east Jerusalem, near the historic Old City, wounded at least two men, aged 23 and 47, in their upper bodies, paramedics said. They were fully conscious and in moderate to serious condition in the hospital, the medics added.
Police shot the attacker, but there was no immediate word on his condition. Authorities taped off the scene of the attack, and emergency vehicles and security forces swarmed the area as helicopters whirled overhead.
Saturday’s events raised the possibility of even greater conflagration in one of the bloodiest months in Israel and the occupied West Bank in several years.
On Friday, a Palestinian gunman killed at least seven people in a Jewish settlement with a large ultra-Orthodox population in east Jerusalem, including a 70-year-old woman. /Argumentum.al
