A US State Department spokesman confirmed today, Saturday, that the United States “stands with” Israel, following the two attacks that killed three people on Friday in Tel Aviv and the Palestinian territories.
“The targeting of innocent citizens of any nationality is unacceptable,” Vedant Patil said in a statement.
An Italian tourist and two Israeli sisters were killed in two separate attacks on Friday.
Today, Saturday, Israeli media revealed details related to the Tel Aviv operation, which resulted in the death of one person and the injury of 6 others.
Israeli media said that the perpetrator of the “Tel Aviv” operation was from the West Bank, and used a car and an identity card for a Palestinian from Kafr Qassem.
According to these means, a foreign tourist was killed and 6 others were injured in the run-over operation, which was followed by gunfire in Tel Aviv.
Details of the Tel Aviv process?
- The Israeli newspaper “Haaretz”, quoting eyewitnesses, said that a car that was driving at speed entered a gas station near the Tel Aviv Corniche.
- The vehicle ran over a number of pedestrians, then the driver started shooting from the window, then turned right, and the car overturned.
- The Israeli police announced, “The perpetrator of the attack was neutralized after he was shot.”
- The victim, a 30-year-old tourist, died after being shot in the head.
- According to the Israeli Ambulance Service, the injured in the Tel Aviv attack were foreign tourists.
- The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said that Netanyahu was aware of the details of the operation in Tel Aviv, and instructed the Israeli police to recruit reserve forces and additional forces from the border guards to face the operations, and called on the public to obey security instructions.
- The Israeli Foreign Ministry described the shooting and run-over attack as a “terrorist attack”.
Sequence of events
- Events began to accelerate on Thursday afternoon, with dozens of missiles being fired from Southern Lebanon on Israel.
- Israel accused Hamas of being behind the attack, but the latter neither confirmed nor denied this.
- On Thursday night, the Israeli army launched a series of raids on sites to Hamas in the Gaza Strip and another he said belonged to it in Lebanon.
- she replied Palestinian factions By firing a barrage of rockets at settlements in southern Israel.
- The Israeli shelling and the factions’ response resumed at dawn, but calm returned cautiously since Friday morning.
- In the afternoon hours, armed Palestinians attacked a car carrying 3 settlers near the Al-Hamra settlement in the western side of the Jordan Valley, killing all of them.
- All of these events came after the tension in Al-Aqsa Mosque, which was stormed by Israeli forces on Wednesday and Thursday.