At least two people were killed this Thursday evening, in an attack in the heart of the Israeli metropolis Tel Aviv.
“There are five wounded, one of whom is in critical condition,” Eli Bin, director of Magen David Adom, the equivalent of the Israeli Red Cross, said earlier on Kan TV. this ongoing attack on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv.
Two witnesses on the spot told AFP that they heard gunshots in the center of Tel Aviv, where the Israeli police said they were deployed.
In a press release, the security forces also asked the population not to go outside in order to avoid being the target of fire.
#BREAKING: More then 6 injured in multiple locations in a shooting attack in Tel Aviv (video: @rbinyamini) pic.twitter.com/sluRKQHHGg
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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is on his side at the army headquarters in Tel Aviv, where he receives the latest information on this fourth attack in just over two weeks in Israel, said his services.
Franco-Israeli woman killed in Hadera
Last week, a Palestinian from the occupied West Bank opened fire on crowds driving through the Jewish-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, killing five people, including two Ukrainians and an Arab Israeli policeman.
A few days earlier, two police officers, including a young Franco-Israeli, had been killed in a shootout claimed by the jihadist organization Islamic State in Hadera (north).
And on March 22, in Beersheva, a large city in the southern Negev desert, four Israelis were killed in a stabbing and car-ramming attack perpetrated by a teacher sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS.