At least one man in his 30s was shot dead and five others were injured Friday night in an attack in central Tel Aviv, according to a report by the rescue team.
Israeli police, quoted by the French news agency AFP, spoke of a “terrorist attack against civilians, an attack from a moving vehicle”, and said they were investigating the circumstances of the case.
The Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, said in a statement that it had confirmed the death of a man in his 30s and had transported five wounded to hospitals in the Tel Aviv area following this attack. on the street. Kaufmann, the great avenue parallel to the beach.
Three of the people were moderately injured, including a 17-year-old girl, and the other two minor injuries, according to the same source.
“All the victims are tourists,” the MDA said in the statement, without elaborating.
The firearm attack occurred 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 forces to deal with terrorist attacks,” said a statement from his office released today to the 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, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
Today’s two attacks follow Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon against targets of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, in response to the launch of 34 ‘rockets’ from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
This escalation of violence follows the brutal invasion by Israeli forces on Wednesday into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holy site, to forcibly evict Palestinian worshipers praying there, injuring at least 37. people.
International condemnations of Israeli violence against Palestinians multiplied, and Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, condemned “an unprecedented crime” by Israel, in full Ramadan.
Source: TSF
