4th May 2023, 12:47 PDT
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Residents said they heard explosions while people were preparing to go to work and children left home for school.
Outside the Old City, troops reportedly fired at Palestinians who were trying to repel the military vehicles by throwing stones at them.
Paramedics said four people were taken to hospital, two with bullet wounds to the legs, and that dozens more suffered from tear gas inhalation. The Palestinian health ministry said those affected included pupils in a nearby school.
Fawaz Bitar, a paramedic with the Palestinian Red Crescent, told the BBC that crews in clearly marked vests could not reach the site of the damaged building for an hour and a half because Israeli troops targeted them with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops targeted an apartment where the “murderers of Leah [Lucy’s Hebrew name], Maia and Rina Dee” were hiding.
It identified them as Hassan Qatanani and Moaz Masri and said they were members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The two men were killed in an exchange of fire along with a senior Hamas operative who helped them escape the scene of last month’s attack, the IDF added, naming him as Ibrahim Jabr. It also said three assault rifles were found inside the apartment.
The Palestinian health ministry said three Palestinians had died but that it was not immediately able to identify two of them due to the severity of their injuries.
Hamas’s military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, later confirmed that Qatanani, Masri and Jabr belonged to the group and that they were behind the attack that killed Lucy Dee and her daughters.
Green Hamas flags were carried by mourners at the men’s funerals, which hundreds of people attended.
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