Pray, not prey! 'Holy-warrior' Palestinians massacre Jewish Jerusalemites at prayer; revel in hate on Twitter

Two suspected Palestinian terrorists struck a synagogue in Jerusalem early on Tuesday, killing at least five people before being shot dead by the security forces.

Israeli security personnel search a religious Jewish Yeshiva next to a synagogue, where a suspected Palestinian attack took place, in Jerusalem Reuters

Worshipers were slain in morning prayer
(Photos courtesy:Yehuda Ashin in J'lem)

Nine other worshippers have been injured, including five who are critically wounded. The attack took place at the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue located in a religious study hall in the Har Nof neighbourhood in west Jerusalem.

Cousins, Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, unleashed an attack on worshippers, armed with guns and knives, shouting 'Allahu Akbar', The Times of Israel  reported, citing witnesses. Two police officers then shot down the militants in an exchange of fire.

"We are viewing this as a terrorist attack," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld was quoted saying by The Jerusalem Post. The incident has added to rising tensions as several attacks have been reported in Israel in the last few weeks.  (Mugdha Variyar in International Business Times Nov 18, 2004)

(Video courtesy IBTimes UK)

Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal beneath their machine-gun

Palestinian media report that the two cousins who carried out the attack, Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group.

Head of the 'Torat Moshe' Kollel (academy for advanced Torah study), Rabbi Moshe Twersky has been named as one of the four who was killed in this morning's terror attack at the Kehillat Bnai Torah Yeshiva Synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood. The rabbi's funeral will take place at 2:00 p.m., starting from the Beit HaTalmud Yeshiva to the Har Hamenuhot cemetery.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to this morning's terror attack in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood saying, "This morning's murderous attack is a direct incitement at the hands of Hamas and (Mahmoud) Abbas, an incitement which has been continuously and irresponsibly ignored by the international community."

Netanyahu, who is due to enter a consultation on the security situation this afternoon, added, "We will respond harshly to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by vile murderers". (Arutz Sheva) 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) responded to this morning's Jerusalem terror attack, blaming incitement by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas for the deadliest attack in the capital in years.

'Mahmoud Abbas incited this terror,'- Israeli Min Avigdor Lieberman