A man shot at people in Tel Aviv, killing at least five. A police officer is said to be among the victims. It is the third attack in just one week.
At least five people were killed in multiple attacks near Tel Aviv in Israel on Tuesday. “We had five injured in two different places in Bnei Brak,” said a representative of the Israel Rescue Service Magen David Adom. “Two of them died.” He later spoke of five dead.
Bnei Brak is a town near Tel Aviv that is predominantly inhabited by orthodox Jews. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, at least one police officer is among the dead. According to rescue workers and eyewitnesses, there was another attack with injuries in the neighboring town of Ramat Gan.
According to the information, a man opened fire on passers-by in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv. According to media reports, he was on a motorcycle and shot people in several places.
Scene from an attack on Sunday in Hadera: Attackers killed two police officers here. (Source: Gili Yaari/imago images)
Third attack in a week
Two police officers and both assassins were killed in an attack in the coastal city of Hadera on Sunday. The perpetrators were Israeli Arabs from the north of the country. The jihadist organization “Islamic State” (IS) acknowledged this.
A week ago four people were killed in another terrorist attack in Beersheva in southern Israel, two men and two women. The assassin, a Bedouin from the Negev desert, was shot dead by passers-by. The man also had ties to IS: in 2016 he was sentenced to four years in prison because he wanted to travel to Syria and fight for the jihadists there. It was one of the deadliest attacks with Israeli casualties in recent years.
