A An Italian was killed and at least five injured in an armed attack in northern Israel this evening. Tel Aviv, all tourists from Italy and England. The attacker was also killed.He is an Arab-Israeli man, according to Israeli media and emergency medical services.
A spokesperson for the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency department announced that a man in his 30s had died and had evacuated five people who had been hit by the car to the hospital.
Among the wounded, condition of three, while two people were slightly injured, detailed MDA. They would all be tourists and there would be no Israelis among them.
According to police, a driver of a vehicle hit several pedestrians before it overturned on a central street in the Tel Aviv waterfront area.
After that, agents in the area “re-They learned that the driver was trying to take the gun from his hand.“, stated a police spokesman, who had previously shot and killed him. According to the media, the alleged perpetrator of the attack was an Arab-Israeli from Kafer Qasem, an Arab-majority town in central Israel.
this happens Amid a sharp rise in violence in the region amid the Muslim holy month Ramadan and today after another attack that killed two Israeli women in the occupied West Bank.
Israel launched several retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon last morning, following rocket fire by Palestinian militants after days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
it was 2023 Beginning of the bloodiest year since 2000 in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In a little over three months since the start of this year, 18 people have been killed in attacks by Palestinians or Arab-Israelis, while at least 92 Palestinians have been killed in various violence with Israel.
Last year, the city of Tel Aviv – a liberal region and quite isolated from the conflict dynamics in the rest of the region – It has been the target of several attacks that resulted in deaths.