In Israel, the bloody wave of attacks continued a week before Easter. Two people died in an attack in Tel Aviv, and the suspected assassin was shot.
Security forces in Israel have killed the alleged assassin in Tel Aviv on Thursday evening. “The terrorist who carried out the armed attack in Tel Aviv yesterday has been located and neutralized,” Israeli officials said Friday morning. The suspect, a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank, was killed near a mosque in the Jaffa district.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency on Thursday evening that they heard shots in central Tel Aviv. At least two people were killed in the attack, according to doctors. The rescue service spoke of a total of 16 injured people who were taken to hospitals.
Hundreds of security forces then combed the city for the fugitive assassin. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said: “It doesn’t matter where this terrorist is hiding, we will find him.” He added: “Everyone who helped him, whether indirectly or directly, will pay the price.”
Israel has experienced four attacks in recent times
It was the fourth attack in Israel in just over two weeks. In Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, a Palestinian attacker killed five people at the end of March, including two ultra-Orthodox Jews, two Ukrainians who had lived in Israel for a long time, and an Israeli-Arab police officer.
Just a few days earlier, two police officers were killed in the northern Israeli city of Hadera. The jihadist militia Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for this attack. On March 22, a man killed four people with a knife and a car in Beersheba, southern Israel. The man also had connections to the IS militia.
In the wake of these attacks, Israeli security forces arrested dozens of people in Israel suspected of having links to IS. The Israeli military also stepped up operations in the occupied West Bank, particularly in Jenin, where the Bnei Brak attacker came from. At least three members of the radical organization Islamic Jihad were killed in the attack last week.
As after the other incidents, radical Islamists celebrated the act. The Islamic Jihad organization “welcomed” the attack, which it saw as a “natural response” to Israel’s “crimes,” including the recent killing of its comrades in Jenin. Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, spoke of a “heroic operation”.
Watch a video report of the recent attacks in Israel: A man opened fire on a bar.
Source: Stern
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