ISRAEL: ISLAMIC STATE GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR HADERA ATTACK THAT KILLED TWO

Mon 28 March 2022:

The Islamic state group claimed the Hadera attack that killed two Israeli police officers less than a week after the Beer Sheva attack committed by a sympathizer of the same group, Reuters reported.

The two assailants in Hadera, a city about 50 km (30 miles) north of Tel Aviv, were Arab citizens of Israel and sympathisers of the group, Israeli security officials said.

Photo of the arsenal of weapons used by the terrorists in the deadly shooting attack in Hadera. pic.twitter.com/XEfDcAsxog

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 27, 2022

“We condemn today’s terrorist attack in Hadera, Israel,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote on Twitter. “Such senseless acts of violence and murder have no place in society. We stand with our Israeli partners and send our condolences to the families of the victims.”

We condemn today’s terrorist attack in Hadera, Israel. Such senseless acts of violence and murder have no place in society. We stand with our Israeli partners and send our condolences to the families of the victims.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) March 27, 2022

The attack occurred five days after attacker from southern Israel killed at least four Israelis in a stabbing and car ramming spree in the city of Beersheba, before he was fatally shot by a passerby.

Surveillance camera footage broadcast on Israeli television stations showed two men opening fire with assault rifles on a main street in Hadera, raising fears in Israel of a wave of such attacks.

📸 | The #Hadera terrorist was identified as Arab Israeli citizen Ibrahim Hassan Yousuf Ighbariah.

▪️In 2016, he was captured and returned to #Israel by the #Turkish police while trying to cross into #Syria to join ISIS.pic.twitter.com/9OMuugcpwY

— EHA News (@eha_news) March 28, 2022

Two members of Israel’s paramilitary border police were killed by the assailants, police said. The two gunmen were shot dead by police officers who had been dining at a nearby restaurant.

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