Two Israeli women killed in West Bank shooting attack

Two Israeli sisters person been killed and their parent has been injured successful a shooting onslaught successful the occupied West Bank, the Israeli subject says.

They were successful a car that crashed aft being changeable astatine adjacent the Hamra Junction, successful the northbound of the Jordan Valley.

The politician of the colony of Efrat said the sisters, who were successful their 20s, and their 48-year-old parent lived determination and were immigrants from the UK.

There was nary contiguous confirmation from Israeli oregon British authorities.

The Israeli subject said its forces were blocking roads successful the country and had "started a pursuit of the terrorists".

The shooting took spot hours aft Israeli warplanes carried retired aerial strikes successful confederate Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

The subject said they were successful retaliation for the biggest rocket onslaught connected Israel launched from Lebanon for 17 years, which it blamed connected the Palestinian militant radical Hamas.

The rocket barrage followed 2 nights of Israeli constabulary raids astatine the al-Aqsa mosque successful occupied East Jerusalem that caused choler crossed the region.

The Israel subject said Friday's incidental successful the Jordan Valley was initially reported arsenic a collision betwixt an Israeli car and a Palestinian car. But erstwhile troops arrived they recovered respective slug holes successful the Israeli conveyance and determined that it was an attack.

Israeli nationalist broadcaster Kan reported that 22 slug casings were found, seemingly from a Kalashnikov battle rifle.

A unpaid medic with the United Hatzalah ambulance work said helium rushed to the country and recovered the 3 victims successful a captious condition.

"Together with different archetypal responders, I performed CPR connected the injured successful an effort to prevention their lives," Oded Shabbat said. "One injured idiosyncratic was transported by chopper to the infirmary for further care."

The Efrat Local Council said successful a Facebook station that the 3 women were a parent and her 2 daughters who lived successful the West Bank settlement, which is southbound of Jerusalem. It added that it was not yet permitted to place them.

The politician of Efrat, Oded Revivi, said the household were immigrants from the UK, primitively from London, and that they were travelling to Tiberius, located connected the shores of the Sea of Galilee, for a vacation erstwhile the onslaught happened.

Israeli media besides cited Mr Revivi arsenic saying that the sisters' begetter had been driving up of them successful different car erstwhile theirs was attacked. He reportedly turned astir and arrived astatine the country to find his woman and daughters being treated by paramedics.

The caput of the Israeli military's Central Command, which oversees the West Bank, called it an "extremely terrible violent attack" and promised that its troops knew however to find those responsible.

"We are reinforcing forces successful each sectors. We were incapable to forestall this attack, but we volition bash everything we tin to forestall the pursuing attacks," Maj-Gen Yehuda Fuchs added.

Israel Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai meantime called connected each Israelis with firearms licences to commencement carrying their weapons.

"This is simply a murderous onslaught that reminds america however applicable the menace of coercion successful its assorted forms is," helium said.

Hamas did not assertion it was down the shooting but praised it arsenic "a earthy effect to [Israel's] ongoing crimes against the al-Aqsa mosque and its barbaric aggression against Lebanon and the steadfast Gaza".

There has been an intensification of unit betwixt Israel and the Palestinians since the commencement of this year.

More than 90 Palestinians - militants and civilians - person been killed by Israeli forces. If those down Friday's shooting are confirmed to beryllium Palestinian, past 17 Israelis and a Ukrainian - each civilians, but for an Israeli paramilitary constabulary serviceman - person been killed successful Palestinian attacks.