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The attack occurred Sunday morning at a factory in Barkan Industrial Park, said Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Colonel Jonathan Conricus.
The authorities identified the victims as 29-year-old Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and 35-year-old Ziv Hajbi. Both victims were working at the factory, said Conricus.
A second woman, 54, was rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds to the upper body, MDA said. She is in a serious but stable condition.
The suspect, a 23-year-old Palestinian from Shuweika village in the West Bank, entered a factory and opened fire with a "Carlo", a homemade automatic weapon, said Conricus. The spokesman described the shooting as a terrorist attack.
"There are charges including, but not limited to, its social media, that it was a terrorist attack," Conricus told CNN. The authorities are also investigating the possibility that the suspect has sought revenge against his employer.
The gunshot suspect had a permit to enter the industrial park and was working at the factory, but he had been away from work for "a few days", said the Israeli army, adding that he was not Had no experience in security matters.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences at a weekly cabinet meeting Sunday morning.
"It was a very serious terrorist attack in which two Israelis were brutally murdered and a citizen was also injured," Netanyahu said.
"On behalf of myself and all the government ministers, I would like to send my condolences to the families of the two murdered people as well as our hopes and prayers for a speedy recovery of the wounded woman."
