A shooting incident in the Shuafat refugee camp near Jerusalem left two people dead, Israeli public broadcaster KAN News reported on Thursday.
According to the Israel Police, following the incident, Jerusalem District Police and Border Police opened an investigation into the shooting. At this stage, however, it appears to have a criminal, rather than ideological, background.
Israel’s national ambulance service, Magen David Adom, stated that the wounded were brought to its personnel on Anatot Road in Jerusalem in critical condition and that medics had provided treatment to two men.
According to MDA, the men, aged around 30 and 40, were then transported to Hadassah-University Medical Center on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus.
Two men were found 'unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing'
"We noticed that they were unconscious, without a pulse and not breathing,” MDA paramedics recalled of the scene. “We began performing advanced CPR and administering medication, and while continuing medical treatment, we evacuated them to the hospital."
The shooting comes amid a wave of violent crime in Israel's Arab sector.
In separate incidents, at least four people died in cases of crime in the sector on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.