Israeli police on Tuesday arrested the brother of the Palestinian martyr Nemer Jamal 37 who carried out a shooting attack in the morning in Har Adar settlement to the northwest of Occupied Jerusalem.
Local sources reported that Israeli police following the attack blocked all entrances to Beit Surik village to the northwest of Jerusalem and prevented citizens and vehicles from entering or leaving the village.
They said that Israeli police forces broke into the house of Jamal’s family and wreaked havoc on it before arresting his brother Medhat and taking him for interrogation.
For their part ambulance crews in Biddu village said that violent clashes broke out between Palestinian youths and the Israeli police after the attack.
They added that the police fired sound bombs and tear gas canisters at the youths who responded by throwing stones and Molotov cocktails.
Israeli police during the past few hours besieged a number of Palestinian villages to the northwest of Jerusalem following the shooting attack and closed Beit Iksa checkpoint partially obstructing the transfer of some critical medical cases.
