While Dr Kevin McCarthy (Letters, November 24 ) may well be correct that “Israel will respond to synagogue attack”, one aspect is not widely known.

Jewish worshippers returned to a Jerusalem synagogue that was the site of a deadly attack the previous day as Palestinians brace for more punitive demolitions amid soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

Israel’s prime minister has ordered authorities to destroy the homes of the attackers who killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue.

Israel has said it will “respond harshly” to an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue in which four people were killed.

Four worshippers have been killed in a horrific attack on a Jerusalem synagogue.