In Tel Aviv, an evening bombing at one of the city’s most popular sites during Passover. The second attack of the day while the region is going through a particularly tense period.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michael Paul
It started as a car-ramming attack. The perpetrator of this attack is an Israeli Arab who works in Tel Aviv. He rushed with his car on a bike path of the Israeli metropolis promenade along the sea.
He overturned with his car and, according to witnesses on the spot, tried to open fire on passers-by. A policeman who was there chased him and finally shot him dead.
The attack left one dead and six injured. All tourists from Italy and Great Britain, who came to celebrate Passover in Israel. Tel Aviv police have cordoned off the city and are looking for possible accomplices.
This is the second anti-Israeli attack in less than 24 hours. In the late morning, two young women were killed in the Jordan Valley in a combined firefight and pileup attack.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has ordered the mobilization of police and army reservists. The police chief, for his part, called on Israelis with weapons to carry them with them in the coming days.
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