Police launch manhunt after two men shot dead in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat camp |
Two Palestinian men were shot dead in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat refugee camp Thursday evening in what police characterized as a “criminal dispute,” the third multiple causality homicide in Arab society the past couple days.
Paramedics found the two men, Iyad Awaida, 42, and Muhammad Abdin, 31, sprawled out on the street and in critical condition, suffering from severe bullet wounds. Onlookers tried to treat the men before paramedics arrived at the scene.
They were rushed to nearby Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, where they were pronounced dead by medical staff.
Citing an initial investigation, police said the double homicide was spurred on by a “criminal dispute.”
Jerusalem District and Border Police officers were working to “trace the identity of the suspect who fled the scene,” law enforcement added. Both victims were known to police, Hebrew outlets reported.
Deputy Commissioner Avshalom Peled, who recently began serving as the Jerusalem District police chief, toured the scene of the shooting and instructed........