“There are and will be no limits to this war,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a public address in Tel Aviv, hours after the attack.
“We are granting total freedom of action to the army, the Shin Bet (internal intelligence service) and all security forces to defeat terror”he added.
After hours of searching with hundreds of troops, Israeli police said Friday they had killed a Palestinian identified as the perpetrator of the attack on an entertainment area that left two dead and dozens wounded.
The man, a Palestinian from the occupied west bank According to the police, he was killed near a mosque in the Jaffa area, a few kilometers from the site of the attack that caused panic in the heart of Tel Aviv.
On Thursday night, the man opened fire on Dizengoff Street, the artery of this coastal city known for its cafes, bars and restaurants. The attacker managed to flee and the police deployed up to 1,000 security personnel in the area to find him.
The two fatalities are Tomer Morad and Eytam Magini, two 27-year-olds who were childhood friends from Kfar Saba, the local mayor reported.
Israeli special forces shot down the attacker in Jaffa, the historic Arab area of Tel Avivwhile in the street of the attack they were still cleaning the blood from the ground.
According to the Shin Bet, the assailant was 28 years old and named Raed Hazem. He is a Palestinian with “no known affiliation” to an armed faction and originally from Jeninin the northern West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
the palestinian groups Islamic Jihad Y Hamaswhich controls the Gaza Strip, welcomed the attack but have not claimed responsibility.
The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbascondemned the facts.
The attack in central Tel Aviv comes as Israeli police forces are on high alert ahead of the first prayer on Friday of the Ramadanthe month of Muslim fasting, on the Esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem.
Last year there were clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police during Ramadan rallies in East Jerusalem, an area occupied by Israel since 1967.
Since March 22, at least 13 people have been killed in Israel in four separate attacks and at least nine Palestinians have been killed, including attackers.
“There is an atmosphere of war, with soldiers and police everywhere, they have searched the restaurant, there are people crying and people running everywhere,” Binyamin Blum, an employee at an establishment near the scene, told AFP. the attack on Thursday.
Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital said at least four people were in “critical condition.” “There are people with serious injuries, especially in the chest, abdomen, and some in the face,” its director, Ronni Gamzu, told AFP.
Last week, the Israeli army deployed a series of operations in this sector, from which the author of an attack with five fatalities in the Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, also originated.
Source: Ambito
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