The incident took place during a television interview conducted by victim Mohammed "Abu Lutfi" Jurban. Two masked men arrived, carried out the shooting and left.
It was the second assassination attempt on Jorban, who claimed after he was shot in 2020: "If the police don't take this seriously, it will end in murder" "Crossing all boundaries, an elected official being shot while being interviewed by the Public Broadcasting Corporation," Sheikh Murad Amash, head of the council, said.