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| Israeli police arrest dozens after deadly synagogue shooting | ||
| 2023-01-29 | ||
| [An Nahar] Israel police said Saturday they arrested dozens of people after a Paleostinian gunman killed seven people outside a synagogue in one of the deadliest attacks in Jerusalem in years. Police identified the gunman as a 21-year-old resident of east Jerusalem, the sector of the city annexed by Israel after the 1967 Six-Day War. There has been no indication that he had prior involvement in bully boy activity or was a member of an established Paleostinian gang.
Others detained included residents of the gunman's neighborhood, police said. In a separate statement, police said the force had been placed on the "highest level" of alert following the attack in Neve Yaakov neighborhood of east Jerusalem. Israel's police chief Kobi Shabtai called the shooting "one of the worst attacks (Israel) has encountered in recent years." MDA paramedic, an East Jerusalem Arab, describes terror scene; TV host hails him as ‘amazing man’ who encapsulates ‘our crazy paradox’ [IsraelTimes] Fadi Dekidek, a senior medic with Magen David Adom emergency services, who was the first medic on the scene of the deadly January 27, 2023 terror attack in Nave Yaakov, Jerusalem, speaks to Channel 12 news on January 28, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot) Fadi Dekidek, the first Magen David Adom paramedic on the scene of Friday night’s deadly terror attack in Neve Ya’akov, describes the "very difficult" scene he encountered, as he checked the pulses of victims and realized that many of them were dead, and worked to treat the casualties. He tells Channel 12 news in an interview that the police had given his team the okay to enter the scene, even though gunfire was still audible nearby — possibly from the exchange in which the terrorist, Alqam Khayri, 21, a resident of East Jerusalem, was rubbed out by coppers nearby. Dekidek says he has been with Magen David Adom for many years, and encountered many terrible scenes, but this was of a different order. As the senior medic at the scene, "I had to check all the people, to my sorrow including all the fatalities, and to oversee the scene... and to enter the [Ateret Avraham] synagogue, in order to check that there was nobody inside. We had received a [first, inaccurate] report that the incident took place in the synagogue, but fortunately, there was nobody injured inside." Ben Caspit, the Channel 12 host, says to him: "Fadi, you realize that you are a man who encapsulates our whole story here. One amazing man. An Arab from East Jerusalem. Someone from your people carried out [this terror attack]. You save the Jews. You treat them. That’s the whole crazy paradox we live in — you encompass it." Dekidek responds: "I’m sure you and the public all know that Magen David Adom is a state all of its own for co-existence. Jews save Arabs. Arabs save Jews. I think it’s an example for the whole world." | ||
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