Netanyahu promises a “strong, fast and precise” response to the attacks

Jan. 28 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a “strong, swift and precise” response to the latest attacks in Jerusalem.

“Our response will be strong, fast and precise. Whoever tries to harm us, we will harm him and whoever helps him,” he warned, according to ‘The Times of Israel’. “We do not want an escalation, but we are prepared for any scenario,” she added.

“We say to the citizens of Israel: do not take justice into your own hands. We are not in the era of the Majteret. We have a sovereign country with an excellent Army, Government and Security Forces,” he added, referring to Clandestine Jews, a Jewish terrorist organization that carried out attacks in the late 1970s and early 1980s against Palestinians.

Netanyahu has made these statements before starting a meeting of the security cabinet of the Israeli Council of Ministers that could approve the proposal to deport the relatives of the terrorists or lower the requirements to carry weapons.

An attacker later identified as East Jerusalem resident Jaire Alkam shot worshipers leaving the Neve Yaakov synagogue for Shabbat on Friday, killing seven of them.

After that, the suspect fled to the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, where he was killed by Israeli Police officers after abandoning the car and opening fire on the officers while trying to flee the scene on foot.

This Saturday a thirteen-year-old Palestinian teenager wounded two other Israelis in attacks that Palestinian groups link to the death of nine people on Thursday in an Israeli military incursion in Jenin, in the West Bank.