{"id":593169,"date":"2026-08-23T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593169\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:48:08","slug":"jerusalem-crime-scene-leaves-three-dead-after-gunfire-molotov-cocktail-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/593169\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem crime scene leaves three dead after gunfire, Molotov cocktail attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel Police responded to reports of a violent incident in east Jerusalem<\/a> on Saturday night, which turned out to be a clash between two feuding families.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One person was killed as a result of the incident, which occured in the village of Silwan.<\/p>\n

Police reported that suspects at the scene were shooting firearms, setting off fireworks, and throwing Molotov cocktails.<\/p>\n

The violence continued even after security forces arrived on the scene, per the police report. Border Police identified two individuals who were wielding blunt instruments, blades, and Molotov cocktails<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The officers determined that those two were posing an active threat and shot them. A short while later, police reported that both men were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw a man in his 30s who was unconscious, without a pulse and without breathing, with severe penetrating injuries to his body,” Magen David Adom<\/a> paramedics who responded to the scene, Moti Glushtein and Zohar Maman, said.<\/p>\n

“We carried out medical examinations, but we had no choice but to pronounce him dead. Another victim was evacuated from the scene in critical condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the police report, it took a large police<\/a> presence to restore order to the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Police responded to reports of a violent incident in east Jerusalem on Saturday night, which turned out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44917,3796,85,46,1158,12429,44331,43],"class_list":["post-593169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-border-police","tag-east-jerusalem","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-magen-david-adom","tag-murder","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}