A attempt perpetrated from a car produced at least one death and five people hospitalized in the city of Tel Aviv, on the same day that Israel carried out a missile attack on the Gaza Strip. The tension in the region continues to escalate, after the clashes on Wednesday in the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem, which ended with 350 detainees. In January, a similar attack on a synagogue produced eight deaths.
The attack occurred when a man – believed by local authorities to be of Arab-Israeli origin – ran over passers-by in downtown Tel Avivthe second most populous in Israel. The attacker was killed by the police when he tried to take out his weapon to continue the attack. The victim is a 30-year-old Italian tourist. Five injured people were taken to area hospitals.
The israeli police defined for the AFP agency that it was “a terrorist attack against civilians, hit by a car” and that “the terrorist was neutralized.” He Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs He spoke about it on his Twitter account, expressing his “horror and deep dismay at the cowardly attack on Tel Aviv.” For his part, the spokesman for the armed organization hamas, Abdul Latif Qanuacelebrated the “high-level operation in the heart of the Zionist entity, in Tel Aviv.”
Previously, on Friday morning, two Israeli-British sisters aged 16 and 20 were killed in a Palestinian shooting in the Jewish settlement of ephrathin west bank. The young women’s mother is seriously injured. The event occurred in the midst of a bombardment in the area: Israel launched airstrikes on southern Lebanon and ten other sites in Gazawhile hamas would have launched 44 missiles at Israeli targets in the Gaza Strip.
After both events, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuordered the summoning of all available reserve forces of the border guardas well as the reservists of the Army and of the Air Force. “Our forces are busy hunting down the terrorists. And it’s only a matter of time, not a long time, and we will settle the accountjust as we have done with the other murderers, without exclusion, in recent months,” the official said.
350 people arrested in a mosque in Israel
The week of tension in the region began this Wednesday during the celebrations of the ramadan in the al aqsa mosque in jerusalemone of the most emblematic religious places for Muslims. during prayers, a group of young people entered with sticks and fires artificial to interrupt the ceremony and desecrate the islamic temple.
The destruction and attacks on Muslims –at least 37 injuredaccording to the Palestinian humanitarian organization Red Crescent– provoked a reaction and a confrontation between the attackers and the people who were praying. Noticed by these events, the Israeli forces stormed the mosque breaking the openings of the place and detaining 350 people.
The Palestinian Islamist Movement Hamas denounced “an unprecedented crime” and called the West Bank Palestinians occupied “to flock to the Al Aqsa Mosque to defend it”. For his part, Benjamin Netanyahu I affirm that the security forces were “forced to act to restore order” against the “extremists”.
Faced with “violence and beatings” by the Israeli security forces, UN Secretary General António Guterresstated “shocked and dismayed”indicated Stephane Dujarric, its spokesperson. “This moment of the calendar, holy for Jews, Christians and Muslims, should be a time of peace and non-violence,” added the spokesperson.
Source: Ambito
