Israeli security forces gather at a shopping complex in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv following a shooting attack on June 8, 2016.
Advertisement
Gunmen have killed four people and wounded six others in an open-air market and restaurant district of Tel Aviv, the city where the ITT Conference has been taking place this week. One of the gunmen was wounded.
“I was with the family, eating pizza”.
“We will take a series of offensive and defensive steps, we will locate anyone who cooperated with this attack and we will act firmly and intelligently to fight terrorism”, he added.
The attack occurred across the street from Israel’s heavily guarded Kirya complex, which contains the Defense Ministry.
The nighttime shooting led police to clear the area.
Officials are learning more about the two gunmen behind the Tel Aviv shooting, both of whom were apprehended by police.
Israeli police later said one attacker had been arrested and the other had been wounded by gunfire and was undergoing surgery.
The incident on Wednesday night happened at the Sarona Market, an area with restaurants and cafes.
According to reports in the Israeli media, citing witnesses and emergency workers, the two shooters were dressed in smart attire – white shirts, ties, jackets and black trousers. Channel 10 TV says reports indicate that at least one of the attackers was disguised as an ultra-Orthodox Jew with black coat and hat.
Since October, 31 Israelis and two Americans have been killed in attacks allegedly carried out by Palestinians.
In March, 22-year-old Palestinian Bashar Massalha killed U.S. citizen Taylor Force and injured another 10 after going on a rampage along the Jaffa waterfront walkway.
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the men responsible for Wednesday’s Tel Aviv, Israel shooting were cousins from the West Bank, potentially with ties to the terror group Hamas, but this development has yet to be confirmed by investigators.
Israel says it has suspended entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan following a deadly attack in Tel Aviv.
Others were killed in clashes or by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Advertisement
Israel says incitement by Palestinian leaders and media is a leading cause of the violence. The assailant was killed a week later in a shootout with police at a hideout in his home village in northern Israel.
