On edge but faithful to their religious doctrines and routine, worshipers in Jerusalem returned on Wednesday to the Jerusalem synagogue where a policeman and four rabbis were killed in a Palestinian attack a day earlier. Reuters reports:
The bloodstains had been washed away. But four memorial candles burned as about a dozen men chanted their daily prayers and police newly stationed outside guarded the Kehillat Bnei Torah congregation.
“It’s a little scary, but we’re going to have to go on with our lives. We’re staying here, we’re not moving anywhere … this terrorist attack is not going to change anything,” said Avraham Burkei, a member of the synagogue in Jewish West Jerusalem.
Palestinians in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem also voiced concern about their safety amid the surge in violence, as police set up checkpoints in their neighborhoods and tethered surveillance balloons floated overhead.
In the dead of night, a large explosion rattled windows in the city as Israel blew up the home of a Palestinian who last month ran over and killed two people at a Jerusalem tram stop before police fatally shot him.
Pointing to armed police checking cars and pedestrians on a road leading to the center of town, Imram Abu al-Hawa, a 40-year-old Palestinian, spoke of humiliation and concern about revenge attacks.
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