Possible attack in the Israeli metropolis Tel Aviv: A car rams people on the beach promenade. A tourist from Italy dies.
According to paramedics, an Italian was killed and seven other tourists were injured in a suspected attack in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Friday evening. According to the police, the assassin rammed a group of people with his car near the beach promenade.
The vehicle overturned. A police officer noticed that the driver was trying to pull out a gun. Then he shot him.
The news site ynet reported that the perpetrator was an Israeli Arab. Ambulance sirens could be heard in the city center after the incident. The Italian Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter: “Horror and deep dismay at the cowardly attack in Tel Aviv.” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani expressed his “firm condemnation of terrorism” in a tweet.
Just last month, one man was killed and two others injured in an attack by a Palestinian in downtown Tel Aviv. Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother critically injured in an attack in the West Bank on Friday morning.
Source: Stern
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