Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the mobilization of the police and military following the twin attacks on Friday in which three people were killed.
In the first attack on Friday, two sisters, aged 16 and 20, were shot dead in the West Bank. Their mother, who is in her 40s, was seriously injured.
From the Israeli side, it is described as a Palestinian attack, where the perpetrator or persons fired from another vehicle.
Later on Friday, one man was killed and seven people were injured when a car rammed people walking and cycling along a Tel Aviv promenade.
According to the rescue service, all the victims were tourists. The person who was killed was a 36-year-old man from Italy.
An Israeli police spokesman told the AFP news agency that “the terrorist has been neutralized” and that “it was a terrorist attack targeting civilians.”
After the attack in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli police to mobilize all reserve border police units and ordered the military to mobilize additional forces.
Tension has been high in the conflict-ridden region for some time, but it escalated on Wednesday. Then unrest erupted at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque when Muslims insisting on praying at one of Islam’s holiest sites barricaded themselves with rocks and fireworks as weapons – after which Israeli police fired tear gas and fired rubber bullets in a nighttime raid in which several hundred Palestinians was arrested.
On Thursday, more than 30 rockets were fired at Israel and Israel responded with attacks on targets in both Gaza and Lebanon.