Fri 07 Apr 2023:
One person was killed and several others were injured in a shooting and ramming attack on Friday. in a possible attack in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital, according to multiple Israeli reports.
The exact nature of the attack was not immediately clear, but Israel’s Foreign Ministry referred to it as a “terror attack”, a term Israeli officials use for assaults by Palestinians.
Police said a car rammed into a group of people near a popular seaside park on Friday before flipping over.
Israel’s rescue service said a 30-year-old man was killed and added that victims of the attack were foreign tourists without providing details on their nationalities.
Three of the wounded, including a 17-year-old, were moderately injured, while two had light injuries, the rescue service added.
According to the Walla news site, the attacker was a Palestinian citizen of Israel from Kafr Qasim, east of Tel Aviv.
One killed, several injured in Tel Aviv attack after car rams into crowd pic.twitter.com/2PJwIM5Mz7
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Security forces mobilised
Israel has mobilised police and army reserves after the attack in Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu’s office said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either attack.
The escalation in tensions comes after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on successive days this week, firing stun grenades and attacking Palestinians as they gathered for Ramadan prayers.
Late on Thursday night, Israeli launched air strikes on Palestinian targets in Lebanon and Gaza that was followed by a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank that killed two Israelis.
The attack on Friday night occurred after Israeli forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque complex two nights in a row, assaulting and arresting worshippers as they used stun grenades and tear gas against thousands of Palestinians praying at the mosque.
Israeli assaults on Palestinian worshippers during Ramadan have become commonplace in recent years.
Last year, over 170 people were wounded and more than 300 were arrested during Israeli raids on the mosque across the Islamic holy month.
In May 2021, hundreds of Palestinians were injured after Israeli forces stormed the compound and attacked worshippers during Ramadan with tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and stun grenades.
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