These are the third attacks in Israel in a week.
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At least five people were killed on Tuesday, March 29, in armed attacks in the suburbs of the Israeli metropolis Tel Aviv, the emergency services announced. Police said they shot the assailant without revealing his identity. “We unfortunately found the death of five people”said the director of Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.
Residents of Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, then of the neighboring town of Ramat Gan reported a man driving in a car and opening fire on passers-by. The Israeli police confirmed these attacks and indicated that the assailant had been shot dead by the security forces who were patrolling these areas. The attack was not immediately claimed. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced that senior security officials will meet in the evening to take stock of the situation.
They are the third in Israel in a week. Two police officers, including a Franco-Israeli, were killed in a shooting claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group on Sunday in Hadera, northern Israel. Israeli police have identified the attackers who were shot as Israeli Arab ISIS operatives.
Four Israelis (two men and two women) were killed in a stabbing and ramming attack on March 22 in Beersheva (southern Israel). The attack was carried out by a man inspired by the ideology of the IS group. The assailant, who died, was a teacher sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning to travel to Syria to fight in IS and for preaching his apology.
After the attack in Hadera on Sunday, the Palestinian armed Islamist movements of Hamas and Islamic Jihad hailed a “heroic operation”. Hamas, the ruling group in the Gaza Strip, considered it a “natural and legitimate response to the occupation” and to “crimes” of Israel.