Israeli police said the three people killed in the shooting attack in the occupied West Bank were members of the police force, AFP reports.

“Three members of the police force were killed this morning in a shooting attack,” Ouzi Levy, chief of the Israeli police in the West Bank, told reporters at the scene of the attack near the Tarqumiya checkpoint near the city of Hebron. Israel’s medical emergency service, Magen David Adom, earlier had announced the death of the three, two men and a woman.

“This was a very severe attack. We saw a vehicle with bullet marks on a mound beside the road,” the emergency service said in a statement quoting two of its paramedics who had rushed to the scene.

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir also visited the scene of the attack and called for more checkpoints to be set up in the area. “Right to life [of Israelis] is more important than freedom of movement of PA (Palestinian Authority) residents,” he told journalists. “Instead of freeing terrorists, shoot them in the head.”