Grief and anger at site of deadly synagogue attack

Calls for reprisals after worst attack by a Palestinian against Israelis since 2008, during spiralling week of bloodshed

- Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum JERUSALEM

Sifting through construction debris on the traffic intersection in occupied East Jerusalem where seven Israelis were killed by a Palestinian gunman last Friday night, three emergency response volunteers wearing plastic gloves and hi-vis vests scraped up handfuls of blood-stained earth, placing it in a bag.

After sunset last Saturday, the end of Shabbat, they arrived equipped with torches, trowels and putty knives. Their task was to ensure every drop of spilled blood was collected for proper Jewish burial. Members of the local ultra-Orthodox community looked on as the men worked beneath the red flash of police and ambulance lights. Some people sang, prayed and chanted “death to terrorists”. A group of children lit memorial candles .

Last Friday evening, a Palestinian identified as 21-year-old Alqam Khayri drove to Neve Yaakov, a Jewish settlement on the outskirts of the Palestinian side of the holy city, and proceeded to shoot at passersby outside a busy synagogue before he fled and was