According to paramedics, an Italian was killed and five other tourists 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.
A statement from the Israeli government just minutes following the incident said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had mobilized border police reserves and ordered the military to deploy additional forces.
The News Page you reported that the perpetrator was an Israeli Arab. Two of the injured were tourists who were taken to Holon’s Wolffson Medical Center with minor injuries, while four others were taken to Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital with moderate injuries, ynet reported. Police said the incident was being investigated. Ambulance sirens might be heard in the city center.
Just last month, one man was killed and two others injured in an attack by a Palestinian in downtown Tel Aviv. Earlier on Friday, two British-Israeli sisters were killed in a shootout in the West Bank, in which their mother was critically injured. The Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.