Immediately after the shooting, the occupation police closed a number of entrances to the occupied city of Jerusalem.
Three Israeli settlers were killed and 12 injured on Thursday morning in a shooting operation carried out by two Palestinian brothers at the entrance to the Ramot settlement in occupied Jerusalem, Israeli media reported.
The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman was among those killed in the shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday.
The Israeli police announced that the perpetrators were killed.
Video footage of the shooting operation at the entrance to the Ramot settlement in Jerusalem, resulting in three settlers killed and six others injured, including four in critical condition.
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According to the Palestinian official news agency WAFA, the two Palestinians were identified as Murad Nimr, 38, and Ibrahim Nimr, 30, from the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher.
Immediately after the shooting, the occupation police closed a number of entrances to the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the major Qalandia checkpoint, north of the city, and prevented people from passing, WAFA reported.
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According to WAFA, Israeli occupation forces also tightened military measures at the Jaba checkpoint, northeast of Jerusalem, at the entrance to the town of Hizma, and the entrance to the town of al-Eizariya, east of Jerusalem, in addition to closing the entrance to Sur Baher.
Moreover, a large Israeli occupation police force raided the neighborhood, broke into the siblings’ homes, and detained members of their families for questioning.
(PC, AJA, WAFA)
