Two Israeli women were killed and a third seriously injured in an alleged shooting attack in the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli sources reported.
A spokesman for the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service specified that the incident is being investigated as a “terrorist attack”, terminology used for attacks carried out by Palestinians.
The action took place on a road near the West Bank town of Hamra.
According to MDA, his paramedics “stated the death of two women in their 20s and provided medical treatment to a 45-year-old woman in serious condition with multisystem lesions”.
The injured woman was airlifted to a Jerusalem hospital for medical attention.
“When we arrived at the place, we saw an Israeli vehicle with three wounded women and a Palestinian vehicle. Two young women in their 20s were taken from the vehicle, they were unconscious, without a pulse, without breathing and with multi-system injuries. After medical examinations they were pronounced dead at the scene,” a paramedic explained.
The Army, for its part, announced that, after receiving a report on “a car accident between a Palestinian and an Israeli vehicle”, its troops went to the place and identified “numerous bullet holes in the Israeli vehicle”, for which they concluded that “the accident was actually a shooting attack.”
Israeli soldiers have blocked roads in the area as part of the search for those responsible, who fled, according to a military spokesman.
This action coincides with an escalation of tension between Israelis and Palestinians, which began on Wednesday with clashes between the Police and Muslim faithful in the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem continued with significant exchanges of fire with Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip and in southern Lebanon.
In parallel, the tension continues to be high in the occupied West Bank, where this morning there had already been a shooting attack against an Israeli soldier, who was slightly injured.
All of this occurs on the third Friday of Ramadan – which coincides with the Jewish Passover and Good Friday – a particularly tense day every year in Jerusalem, when hundreds of thousands of Muslims flock to pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, where this morning there were minor incidents with the police.
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