The escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians already leaves 3 dead and dozens injured
There are also 22 people arrested. An Italian tourist has died and seven others have been injured last night in a presumably intentional hit-and-run. The Israeli prime minister has ordered the “immediate” mobilization of four reservist units of the Border Police.
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Image of the allegedly intentional outrage in Tel Aviv. Photo: EFE
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An Italian has died and seven other tourists have been injured tonight in an allegedly intentional hit-and-run in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, all of them tourists from Italy and the United Kingdom. The attacker, an Arab-Israeli man, has also been killed, Israeli media and emergency medical services reported.
Members of the Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency department A 36-year-old Italian man was declared dead and seven people who were hit by a car were evacuated to the hospital, a spokesman for the medical organization specified in a statement.
Among the injured, three people are in moderate condition, while four others were slightly injured, MDA said. All of them would be tourists, two Italians and five British.
According to police, a driver of a vehicle ran over several pedestrians on a central avenue in the Tel Aviv waterfront area until it overturned. After that, agents in the area saw that the driver was trying to get a gun, before which they shot and killed him, specified a police spokesman. According to media, the alleged perpetrator of the attack was an Arab-Israeli from Kafer Qasem, a town with an Arab majority in central Israel.
Besides, two settlers have been killed in a shootout in the West Bank. They were two sisters, one of them a minor, who also had British nationality. Her mother has been seriously injured. “The UK calls on all parties in the region to reduce tensions,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the “immediate” mobilization of four Border Police reservist units to “confront the terrorist attacks”, in reference to the recent escalation of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians that have already stopped three dead, more than a dozen injured and 22 arrests.
assault on the mosque
During the past day, around 100,000 Muslims have completed the third Friday of Ramadan between prayers in al aqsa mosque in jerusalem, after the Israeli Police stormed the temple and beat up the faithful. The prayer came at a time of extreme tension after the Israeli police broke into the mosque, which started a series of bombardments between Hamas and Israel.
Media such as the Palestinian agency Maan or the news portal The New Arab have denounced that the Israeli Police have attacked dozens of faithful in the morning who were trying to enter the mosque to perform the Fajr prayer, by preventing those under 40 years of age They entered the sacred precinct.
Although the midday prayer took place calmly, hundreds of people waved Palestinian flags and those of the Islamist Hamas movement, and also applauded the attack where two people were killed, according to reports from The Times of Israel.
On the other hand, the Wafa agency has reported that at least three young Palestinians have been injured by shots from Israeli forces in two raids in the West Bank.
In Kafr Qasem, several vehicles have been burned and have painted a Star of David and the slogan “price tag”, an expression used by Israeli settlers against the Palestinian and Arab population of Israel.
48 hours of violent escalation
During the early morning, the Israeli Army has bombarded the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, in response to rockets launched from the Strip and neighboring Israel. Hours later, the Lebanese government has announced that it will file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council (UN) on the understanding that the Israeli bombings represent a “flagrant violation of its sovereignty.”
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has strongly condemned the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) airstrikes on Lebanon that took place early Friday morning, and has accused Israel of “violating the sovereignty of brotherly Arab countries”.
Israel launches attacks on Gaza and southern Lebanon
Source: Eitb
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