At least one man in his thirties was shot dead and five others injured in an attack in central Tel Aviv on Friday night, according to a report from the rescue team.
The Israeli police, quoted by the French news agency AFP, spoke of a “terrorist attack on civilians, an attack from a moving vehicle”and said it was investigating the circumstances of the case.
Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli counterpart of the Red Cross, says this in a statement the death of a man in his thirties and the transportation of five wounded to hospitals in the Tel Aviv areaafter this attack took place on Kaufmann Street, the main avenue parallel to the beach.
Three of the people suffered minor injuries, including a 17-year-old girl, and the other two suffered minor injuries, the same source said.
“All the victims are tourists,” the MDA said in the statement, without providing further details.
The gun attack took place on a Shabbat night and during the Jewish Passover week, in a context of escalating violence in the Middle East in recent days.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered the Israeli police to mobilize all reserve police units at the borders and the army to mobilize additional troops to face terrorist attacks,” says a statement from his office released Friday evening.
Hours earlier, two British-Israeli sisters, ages 16 and 20, from the Israeli settlement of Efrat, had been killed and their mother seriously injured in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank.Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Friday’s two attacks follow Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon against targets of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in response to the firing of 34 rockets of Lebanon over Israeli territory.
This escalation of violence follows Israel’s brutal invasion on Wednesday of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, to forcibly expel Palestinian worshipers praying there, killing at least 37 people. were injured.
International condemnations of Israeli violence against Palestinians mounted, and Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, condemned “an unprecedented crime” by Israel in the midst of Ramadan.
Source: DN
