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Tel Aviv shooting: One dead, motive unclear, Israel police say
Rosenfeld said the assailant is still at large and that Israeli police “are searching Tel Aviv”. Ben Ezra helped the man stanch the bleeding, until he was taken to a hospital.
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Shortly after the shooting, a manhunt was launched to find the gunman.
The killer was still on the loose on Friday night.
ISIS Thursday posted a Twitter message in fractured Hebrew warning “Tomorrow there will be an attack on Dizengoff St”.
Palestinians have increasingly protested against Israel’s ongoing occupation, as well as incursions by right-wing settler groups into the al-Aqsa Mosque – the third holiest site for Muslims – in occupied East Jerusalem.
An Islamic State audio message circulated on social media last week threatened to strike at Israel “soon”.
And the next day, Hassan Nasrallah said that the operation to avenge the assassination of Samir Quntar was underway. Twenty Israelis were killed from October to mid-November alone, with others injured, the government said.
The gunman was believed to be a 29-year-old Israeli Arab from the north of the country, identified as an Islamist sympathiser. In camera footage of the attack, the gunman was seen pulling his weapon from a backpack and aiming the rifle at passersby and at pub patrons. The shooting was captured on video from a shop next door.
The spokesman said: “All possible angles are being investigated – Large-scale police forces are conducting searches for him”. They have cast a wide net to hunt the killer in the neighboring streets up to the seaside promenade.
Recent reports suggest that a building on Reines Street has been surrounded by police, with some speculating that a suspect may be inside.
Yossi, a bus driver, told the station that he saw “a man dressed all in black holding an automatic weapon, shooting towards people and then towards me”.
He said it was unclear whether the attack had “criminal motivations” or was related to the ongoing escalation of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. According to another, he escaped on a motorbike. One of the cafe staffers said several people chased after him “but he disappeared” into a side-street.
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A gunman opened fire there this afternoon, killing two people and wounding at least three others before fleeing.