BBC
Two British-Israeli sisters have been killed and their mother has been injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank.
They were in a car that crashed after being shot at near the Hamra Junction, in the north of the Jordan Valley.
The mayor of the settlement of Efrat said the sisters, who were in their 20s, and their 48-year-old mother lived there and were immigrants from the UK.
The UK Foreign Office said it was “saddened” by the news.
“We are saddened to hear about the deaths of two British-Israeli citizens and the serious injuries sustained by a third individual,” a statement said.
The Israeli military said its forces were blocking roads in the area and had “started a pursuit of the terrorists”.
The shooting took place hours after Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The military said they were in retaliation for the biggest rocket attack on Israel launched from Lebanon for 17 years, which it blamed on the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The rocket barrage followed two nights of Israeli police raids at the al-Aqsa mosque in occupied East Jerusalem that caused anger across the region.
Later on Friday, Israel said one person had died and several others had been injured in a separate shooting incident in Tel Aviv.
The Israel military said the earlier incident in the Jordan Valley was initially reported as a collision between an Israeli car and a Palestinian car. But when troops arrived they found several bullet holes in the Israeli vehicle and determined that it was an attack.
Israeli public broadcaster Kan reported that 22 bullet casings were found, apparently from a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
A volunteer medic with the United Hatzalah ambulance service said he rushed to the scene and found the three victims in a critical condition.
“Together with other first responders, I performed CPR on the injured in an attempt to save their lives,” Oded Shabbat said. “One injured person was transported by helicopter to the hospital for further care.”
The Efrat Local Council said in a Facebook post that the three women were a mother and her two daughters who lived in the West Bank settlement, which is south…
