Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Israeli authorities announced that the terrorist attacker in Tel Aviv was killed during a clash with the security services after he was hiding near a mosque in Jaffa.
The security services found the Palestinian terrorist who committed the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv last night, while he was hiding near the Jaffa Mosque. He was killed during a clash with the Special Police Unit and Shin Bet fighters. There were no casualties among our forces. https://t.co/L4TKz1ULq8
This came in a tweet by Ofir Gendelman, spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister to the Arab media, publishing a picture of the attacker, saying in a tweet: “The security services found the Palestinian terrorist who committed the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv last night, while he was hiding near the Jaffa Mosque. He was killed during a clash with Fighters of the Special Police Unit and the Shin Bet. There were no casualties among our forces.”
And the Israel Broadcasting Corporation stated, in a report, that “the terrorist barricaded himself in the mosque after hours of pursuit, and that a force from the window and the anti-terror unit arrived at the place to take the surveillance cameras, then found the perpetrator and exchanged fire with him and liquidated him.”
The authority stated: “The attack resulted in the killing of two young men, aged twenty-seven and twenty-eight years, and the wounding of nine others – four of them were in serious condition, five were lightly, and three were injured in panic,” noting that “the attack targeted the patrons of the Elka Bar on Dizengoff Street.”