British-Israeli sisters killed in West Bank attack, Foreign Office appeals for de-escalation.

Two British-Israeli sisters were shot dead in an attack on their car near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank on Friday, while their mother was seriously wounded. The family lived in the Efrat settlement, near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. The murders triggered an outpouring of grief in Efrat, a Jewish settlement near Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and young residents held an impromptu vigil on Friday afternoon. The Hamas militant group that rules Gaza praised the incident as retaliation for Israeli raids earlier this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque.