THE Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack with firearms that occurred this morning at Jerusalemas a result to kill three peopleand called for “escalating resistance” against Israel.

“Brothers Mourad Nemr (age 38) and Ibrahim Nemr (age 30) (…), members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades from Sur Baher”East Jerusalem neighborhood, “sacrificed by running a business” in which “three settlers were killed and others injured,” Hamas said in a statement.

The Palestinian organization added that “the operation was carried out as a natural response to the unprecedented crimes committed by the occupation”referring to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Israeli police confirmed that the two perpetrators of the attack, brothers from East Jerusalem, were killed after they attacked civilians waiting at a bus stop in Jerusalem.