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Two dead in shooting at Tel Aviv bar

Police forces have been dispatched to search abandoned warehouses and construction sites. With the suspect still at large, the police declined to offer a motive.

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Two of the people were reported to be in severe condition and five had less severe injuries, with all seven treated at the scene and taken to the hospital.


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Residents of Ar’ara, the northern Israeli village where the suspect lives, report that major police forces are searching the area.


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Although police were cautious to characterize the New Year’s Day attack, Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai said at a press conference the attack was clearly a terrorist attack, continuing a string of violence across Israel in recent months, including several stabbing attacks.

Security camera footage aired on Israel’s Channel 10 television showed the assailant, who appeared to be in his mid-to-late 20s and wore protective eyeglasses and a windbreaker, browsing dried fruit at a delicatessen on Dizengoff Street.

They have also refused to say whether the two incidents were linked.

Haim Pinto, owner of a jewelry store near the pub, said he was outside closing his shop when the shooting began.

Late on Friday, gunmen in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Israel causing no injuries or damage, the Israeli military said. “I fell and I waited around 30 seconds, it was disgusting”.

Baghdadi said IS has “not forgotten Palestine for a single moment”.

“People started running in my direction, yelling “terrorist, terrorist”.

“If I were there when it happened I would have been dead”, she told AFP, recounting how she hid in her salon’s storage room with a few customers, clutching a pair of scissors and waiting for the shooting to end.

A pub called Simta, located on the corner of Dizengoff and Gordon streets, very close to the beach, hotels and Dizengoff Center mall, was the target of this man’s murderous act. “He was brown haired, wearing a grey sweater and fled the scene”, he told AFP.

Israel has recently been hit by a wave of stabbings and other kinds of attacks on civilians and soldiers, a wave apparently not directed by any particular organization.

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131 Palestinians have died.

The scene of the shooting