At least two people died and several others injured in an attack in the heart of Tel Aviv in Israel on Thursday evening.
“There are five wounded, one of them in critical condition,” director of Magen David Adom, the equivalent of the Israel Red Cross, initially said of the ongoing attack on Dizengoff Street in the center. from Tel Aviv. “We have so far received ten wounded but despite the efforts of the medical staff, two of them have succumbed to their injuries,” the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv said in a brief statement a few minutes later.
Two witnesses told AFP that they heard gunshots in the center of the Israeli metropolis, where the police were deployed. The security forces also asked the population to avoid the area so as not to be the target of fire.
According to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, this is the fourth such attack in just over two weeks. Last week, a man opened fire on a crowd in the Jewish-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, killing five people, including two Ukrainians and an Arab Israeli policeman.