"The EU has repeatedly expressed its concerns about the increasingly high number of casualties of the violence this year. We call on all parties to de-escalate the situation and refrain from actions that could increase the cycle of violence,” it said in a statement.

"The European Union is appalled by the two terror attacks last Saturday (19 August) and Monday (21 August) in the occupied West Bank that claimed the lives of three Israeli civilians and left another person injured,’’ an EU spokesperson said this week in a statement.

"We express our condolences to the families of the victims. The EU strongly condemns terrorism in all its forms," the statement added.

The European Union said it is "gravely concerned by the continuing wave of violence in Israel and in the occupied West Bank, that is causing the loss of both Israeli and Palestinian lives".

The statement continued: "The EU has repeatedly expressed its concerns about the increasingly high number of casualties of the violence this year. We call on all parties to de-escalate the situation and refrain from actions that could increase the cycle of violence."

The statement was published after Palestinian terrorists on Monday gunned down Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old mother of three, in a drive-by shooting near Hebron. Her 12-year-old daughter, who was sitting beside her, was unhurt.

Another individual, identified as Aryeh Gottlieb, was seriously wounded in the attack. Gottlieb is being treated at Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center, where his condition has been stabilized.

Last Saturday, a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed two Israelis in Huwara, located just outside Nablus in Samaria, in northern West Bank. Ashdod residents Silas Nigrekar, 60, and his son, Aviad Nir, 28, were shot at point-blank range at a car wash in the Palestinian village.

Earlier Tuesday (22 August), Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of involvement in Nigri’s murder.

The suspects, named as Mohammed and Sarker Shantir, were captured in Hebron along with the M-16 rifle believed to have been used in the attack.

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