Two British-Israeli ladies were shot and murdered in the West Bank.

Two British-Israeli sisters were killed and their mother was injured in a shooting in the occupied West Bank. The sisters, who were in their 20s, and their 48-year-old mother lived in the settlement of Efrat and were immigrants from the UK. The Israeli military said it was in retaliation for the biggest rocket attack on Israel launched from Lebanon for 17 years, which it blamed on the Palestinian militant group Hamas. On Friday, one person had died and several others had been injured in a separate shooting incident in Tel Aviv. The Israeli military said the earlier incident in the Jordan Valley was initially reported as a collision between an Israeli car and a Palestinian car, but when troops arrived they found several bullet holes in the Israeli vehicle and determined that it was an attack. The Efrat Local Council said the three women were a mother and her two daughters who lived in the West Bank settlement south of Jerusalem. The mayor of Efrat, Ode Revivi, said that the family were immigrants from the UK, originally from London, and were travelling to Tiberius, located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, for a holiday when the attack happened. The head of the Israeli military's Central Command called it an "extremely severe terrorist attack" and promised that its troops knew how to find those responsible. Israel Police commissioner Kobi Shabtai meanwhile called on all Israelis with firearms licences to start carrying their weapons. Hamas did not claim it was behind the shooting, but praised it as a natural response to Israel's ongoing crimes against the al-Aqsa mosque and its barbaric aggression against Lebanon and the steadfast Gaza. There has been an intensification of violence between Israel and the Palestinians since the start of this year, with more than 90 Palestinians - militants and civilians - killed by Israeli forces. If those behind Friday's shooting are confirmed to be Palestinian, then 17 Israelis and a Ukrainian - all civilians, except for an Israeli paramilitary police officer - have been