A policeman has become the fifth victim in Tuesday’s attack on a Jerusalem synagogue. He had been the first to respond to the incident and later died of his wounds in hospital.<br /><br />It is the deadliest such attack in six years in the Holy city. The victims were either shot or cut down by two Palestinians wielding a meat cleaver and a gun. <br /><br />The two attackers have been named as Ghassan and Udai Jamal – cousins from the Jerusalem district of Jabal Mukaber.<br />They were themselves shot dead by police.<br /><br />The synagogue lies in an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of West Jerusalem. About 25 people had been praying when the shooting broke out.<br /><br />Four of the dead were rabbis – Three held dual US-Israeli citizenship and a fourth man was a British -Israeli national.<br /><br />Immediately afterwards Israeli security officials and police headed for the area of the city where they had lived and made ten arrests including several family members.<br /><br />Violence in region has surged in the past month, fuelled in part by a dispute over Jerusalem’s holiest shrine.<br /><br />Several Israelis have been deliberately run over or stabbed to death by Palestinians.
