A shooting and car accident in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv has killed an Italian and injured at least five people, all tourists from Italy and the United Kingdom. The attacker, an Arab-Israeli man, was also killed, Israeli media and emergency medical services reported.
Members of the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service pronounced a man in his 30s dead and evacuated five people hit by a car to hospital.
Among the injured, three people are in a moderate condition, while two others were slightly injured, MDA said. They would all be tourists and there would be no Israelis among them.
According to police, a driver of a vehicle on a central avenue on Tel Aviv’s waterfront ran over several pedestrians until it flipped over.
Afterward, officers in the area “recognized that the driver was trying to take the gun he had,” before shooting and killing him, a police spokesman said. 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 incident comes amid a surge in violence in the region during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and after another attack today that left two Israeli women dead in the occupied West Bank.
Israel launched several retaliatory strikes against the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon this morning after rockets were fired by Palestinian militants after days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
This 2023 was the deadliest start of the year in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since 2000. In the few more than three months since the beginning of this year, 18 people have been killed in attacks perpetrated by Palestinians or Arab-Israelis, while at least at least 92 Palestinians have died in various types of violent incidents with Israel.
In the past year, the city of Tel Aviv – a liberal area and rather isolated from the conflict dynamics in the rest of the region – has been the target of several attacks that have claimed deaths.
Source: El heraldo
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