The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Daily Mail, i and the Independent all cover yesterday’s deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem. An Arab resident of east Jerusalem opened fire near a busy light railway station and then fled the scene, sparking a chase and shoot-out with police. A grandmother in her sixties and a recently married police officer were killed in the attack. Many of the reports mention that the assailant, an Arab resident of east Jerusalem who was killed in the ensuing chase, was due to begin a prison sentence yesterday for assaulting an Israeli policeman.

Some of the reports note that Hamas praised the attack and claimed the attacker as a member. A wave of Palestinian violence which began last October appeared to fade over the summer, but there has been an increase in attacks during the past several weeks.

The Daily Mail online says that the Syrian government bombardment of eastern Aleppo continues following a failed UN Security Council attempt to pass a resolution which would stop the air strikes. Russia vetoed a French-led motion, while Moscow then saw its own resolution rejected. The Telegraph online says that some UN Security Council delegates walked out of the session when Russia invited a Syrian envoy to speak.

In the Israeli media, the top story in all dailies is yesterday’s shooting attack in Jerusalem, which left two Israelis dead. It is the front page story in Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz and Israel Hayom. Israel Radio news reports that the two Israeli victims were both buried yesterday. 29-year-old police officer Yosef Kirma was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, while 60-year-old Levana Malihi was laid to rest in Givat Shaul near the entrance of Jerusalem. The headline in Israel Hayom echoes the words of Kirma’s widow at his funeral, saying “Yossi, watch over me”.

There is plenty of commentary on yesterday’s attack. In Yediot Ahronot, Yossi Yehoshua says that with the Jewish holidays of Yom Kippur and Sukkot approaching within the next week, which will see a large number of Jewish visitors to Jerusalem’s holy sites, “we are on the threshold of a boiling point that will require a ‘cooling blanket,’ both operationally and politically”. Meanwhile, Yossi Melman in Maariv comes to a similar conclusion that “above all else, the attack yesterday again proved the potential explosiveness of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount”.

Also in the aftermath of the shooting attack, Israel Radio news reports that Israeli authorities arrested 15 residents of the east Jerusalem neighbourhood where the attacker lived, for publicly celebrating the shooting. Israel Radio news also says that there is a high state of alert in Jerusalem in case of any further attacks.

In other news, Maariv prominently reports that Defence Minister and Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Lieberman is spearheading an attempt to have the coalition boycott all appearances by MKs from the Joint Arab List, after they refused to attend the funeral of former President Shimon Peres.