One Tourist Killed, 5 Injured in Tel Aviv Attack

A person wounded in an attack is brought to a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Markowicz)
A person wounded in an attack is brought to a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Markowicz)
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One Tourist Killed, 5 Injured in Tel Aviv Attack

A person wounded in an attack is brought to a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Markowicz)
A person wounded in an attack is brought to a hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Gideon Markowicz)

An Italian tourist was killed and five other tourists were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli and Italian officials said.

An Israeli security source identified the assailant as an Israeli Arab from the town of Kafr Qassem.

A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a popular Tel Aviv promenade. The officer "neutralized" the driver when he tried to pull a gun, police said.

The car had veered off the street near a popular bike and walking path along the beach. Reuters video from shortly after the incident showed a white car upside down on the grass of a park. Police cordoned off the area that was brimming with emergency responders.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani confirmed on Twitter that the man killed was Italian.

It was the second deadly attack on Friday, after two Israeli sisters were killed when their car was shot up in the occupied West Bank.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed police to mobilize all reserve border police units and has directed the Israeli army to mobilize additional forces to confront the terror attacks, his office said.

Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said all the victims in the Tel Aviv attack were tourists. The police said four reserve companies of border police would be called up in the coming days.



Two Killed in Israeli Strike North of Lebanon’s Capital

An ambulance takes wounded to a hospital in Beirut. (AFP)
An ambulance takes wounded to a hospital in Beirut. (AFP)
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Two Killed in Israeli Strike North of Lebanon’s Capital

An ambulance takes wounded to a hospital in Beirut. (AFP)
An ambulance takes wounded to a hospital in Beirut. (AFP)

At least two people were killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian-majority town of Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon's health ministry said on Saturday, in the first attack on the area by Israeli forces.

The Israeli military was looking into the report of the strike in Jounieh, a spokesperson said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group that is fighting Israeli troops on Lebanon's southern border and whose top leadership has suffered blows from targeted Israeli strikes.

The health ministry said the Israeli strike targeted a car.

Two witnesses told Reuters they heard a small blast and saw a Honda sports utility vehicle travelling on the main highway south in the direction of Beirut begin to lose control.

The car stopped about 100 meters down the highway and a man and a woman ran out of the vehicle and into a grassy area on the side of the highway before another blast, the witnesses said.

One witness saw the charred remains of a person in the grassy area.