Police are investigating a suspected double attempted murder after two men, believed to be around 50 and 40 years old, were critically wounded by gunfire on Friday in the Druze village of Buq'ata in the northern Golan Heights. Officers launched a probe and began searches for suspects. The motive and circumstances are under review.
The shooting came one day after a deadly attack in Kafr Qasim, where Khaled and Hanan Jamal, a married couple in their 60s, were shot in their car. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the woman was evacuated in critical condition to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, where she later died. Police said they were investigating the case and searching for suspects, and that the background was likely a blood feud tied to an ongoing dispute.
Magen David Adom paramedic Ahmed Abu-Shah said responders found two gunshot victims at the scene. He said a 62-year-old man showed no signs of life and was declared dead there, while a woman about 50 years old also had gunshot wounds, received treatment, and was taken to hospital in serious, unstable condition.
The killings in Kafr Qasim followed a series of other violent incidents. Hours earlier, a man about 60 was seriously wounded in violence in Kafr Qara in Wadi Ara. Two days earlier, a 55-year-old man was seriously wounded in gunfire in Kafr Qasim, and later a man in his 20s was seriously wounded near Moshav Livnim in the Upper Galilee; another victim was evacuated with minor injuries.
