Carnage on streets of Tel Aviv as car ploughs into pedestrians
A fresh terror attack has struck the Israeli city of Tel Aviv with eight people wounded in a car ramming.
A civilian reportedly shot the driver dead after he veered on to the curb and ran a number of people over.
He also exited the vehicle and stabbed a member of the public, it has been claimed.
Among the victims was a 46-year-old woman who sustained serious injuries and is now at a nearby hospital.
Another four were also hurt, some of whom sustained stab wounds and others with bruises due to the impact, Haaretz reports.
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Israeli security and emergency personnel work at the site of a reported car ramming attack in Tel Aviv today (AFP via Getty Images)Local media didn't give the suspect's full identity, but said he was a 23-year-old West Bank resident who was in Israel on a medical permit.
Claiming responsibility for the attack, Hamas spokesman Hazem Kassem said the ramming was the "first response", suggesting more deaths could be looming.
Kassem said: "The heroic action in Tel Aviv is the first response to Israel's crimes against our people in the Jenin refugee camp. As the [Palestinian] resistance has already put it – Israel will pay the price for its crimes."
It comes as Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a West Bank refugee camp Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety. The two-day Palestinian death toll rose to 10.
Seven are thought to have been wounded in the attack (AFP via Getty Images)The large-scale raid of the Jenin camp, which began Monday, is one of the most intense military operations in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades. It bore hallmarks of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from his ultranationalist political allies for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four people.
On Tuesday morning, rubble littered the streets of Jenin and there were reports of damage to shops. Columns of black smoke periodically punctuated the skyline over the camp in the northern West Bank city, long a Palestinian militant stronghold.
It comes as a large-scale operation to track down Palestinian militants continues in the Jenin refugee camp (AFP via Getty Images)Jenin Mayor Nidal Al-Obeidi said that around 4,000 Palestinians had fled the Jenin refugee camp, finding accommodation in the homes of relatives and in shelters. Residents said there was no water or electricity in the camp.
Across the West Bank, Palestinians observed a general strike to protest the Israeli raid.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Tuesday that the two-day death toll rose to 10, with two more deaths reported overnight. The Israeli military has claimed all were militants, but did not provide details.
During Tuesday's operations, the military said it had seized weapons and demolished tunnels beneath a mosque in the Jenin refugee camp.
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Protests and strikes have been held across the West Bank in response to the raids (AFP via Getty Images)A spokesman for the Israeli military, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said Monday that Israel had launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin.
The Jenin camp and an adjacent town of the same name have been a flashpoint since Israeli-Palestinian violence began escalating in spring 2022. It was also a hotbed of Palestinian military activity in the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s.
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