At least six people were killed in an attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem

At least four Israeli civilians have been killed this morning in the attack on a synagogue and yeshiva (Talmudic school) contiguous in Har Nof, west of Jerusalem. The two assailants armed with pistols, hatchets and knives, died at the hands of the police shortly after confirmed police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, who regarded the incident "a terrorist attack". The radical Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have held the attack and called for more similar actions.

The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has ensured that will respond to the attack "with an iron fist". "This is the direct result of the instigation of Hamas and Abu Mazen [the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas], a instigation that the international community ignores irresponsibly," reads a statement of Netanyahu. Abbas has responded with another note in the press that explicitly condemns the crime, something that he had avoided doing so far before the crowd of violent incidents that have been happening in Israel in recent weeks.

The synagogue and yeshiva attacked is located in the building Gabriel Safdie, street in the Har Shimon Agassi. Abraham, a young Venezuelan resident in the area for ten years, argues that the attackers chose this street because there "has not reached the extra vigilance imposed in other sites in Jerusalem", nearly 3,000 agents deployed after the latest attacks and religious riots in the Esplanade of the Mosques (or Temple Mount for the Jews). "Here there was no patrols or armed people. It was an easy place", is it hurts.

After the attack, Netanyahu has announced that in the course of the afternoon is scheduled to meet with senior security positions to oversee the research and coordinate a response. The first information that have transcended the encounter, divulged by a spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aimed at the demolition of houses of two suspected terrorists