ms held Israeli and American or British passports.

Netanyahu called the attack

the direct result of the incitement.

Abbas condemns attack, but militants in Gaza celebrate.

JERUSALEM
Two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue
complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem on Tuesday m
orning and killed four men in the middle of their morning prayers, the Israeli p
olice said.
The assailants were killed at the scene in a gun battle with police that left on
e officer critically wounded. It was the deadliest attack on Israeli civilians i
n more than three years, and the worst in Jerusalem since 2008.
Witnesses and Israeli leaders were particularly horrified at the religious overt
ones of an attack on a synagogue that killed men in ritual garments and spilled
blood on prayer books.
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