East Jerusalem man killed in apparent family conflict; two others killed by cops dispatched to the scene

Three people were shot and killed in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan earlier tonight, two of them by the police, in an incident that the Israel Police says was sparked by a “family conflict.”

The Magen David Adom emergency service says that it received a report just before midnight about two men who were injured in a “violent incident in East Jerusalem.”

It says medics pronounced one of the men dead upon their arrival at the scene, and another was evacuated from the scene in critical condition.

Following up on the initial MDA report, the police raises the toll of the incident to three, saying that officers dispatched to the scene killed two other people who posed a “real threat to their lives.”

The statement, which is provided to Hebrew media outlets, says that security forces who arrived on the scene after the first man was killed “identified two suspects who posed a real threat to their lives, holding weapons and Molotov cocktails.”

“A shot was fired at them to neutralize the danger and as a result, they were declared dead on the spot,” the statement says.