A man in his thirties was killed and five other people were injured in an attack in the center of Tel Aviv on Friday evening April 7, according to the latest report from Israeli rescuers, against a backdrop of an upsurge of violence in recent days in the Middle East. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, it is a ” terrorist attack “. The police, on the other hand, mention a “terrorist attack against civilians, a ramming car attack” and indicates that the driver was shot.
The Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, said it had observed the death of a man in his 30s and evacuated five wounded to hospitals in the Tel- Aviv following this attack which occurred in Kaufmann Street, the main artery that runs along the beach.
Three people were moderately injured, including a 17-year-old girl, and two slightly, according to this source. “All the victims are tourists”the MDA said in a statement, without further details.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “ordered the Israel Police to mobilize all reserve Border Police units, and to [l’armée] to mobilize additional forces to deal with terrorist attacks”according to a statement from his office.
Palestinian attack in the West Bank
The attack occurred on a Sabbath evening and during the week of Passover, after a recent upsurge in violence in the Middle East. Earlier Friday, two British-Israeli sisters, aged 16 and 20, from the Israeli settlement of Efrat, were killed and their mother seriously injured in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.
The two attacks on Friday come after Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon against positions of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in response to the firing of dozens of rockets against its territory.
This escalation of violence follows the brutal irruption of Israeli forces and the events that occurred on Wednesday in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam. International condemnations have multiplied and Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, has denounced a “unprecedented crime” of Israel, in the middle of Ramadan.