An Italian was killed and at least five people were injured in a shootout and a hit-and-run in an Israeli town tonight Tel Aviv, all tourists from Italy and Great Britain. The attacker, an Arab-Israeli man, was also killed, according to Israeli media and emergency medical services.

Members of the Magen David Adom Emergency Department (MDA) A man in his 30s was declared dead. and five people who were hit by a car were evacuated to the hospital, the press service of this medical organization specified.

Among the injured, three are in a moderate condition, two more received minor injuries, according to the MDA. All of them would be tourists and there would be no Israelis among them.

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According to police, the driver of the car hit several pedestrians on the central avenue near the Tel Aviv embankment until it overturned.

After that, operatives in the area “admitted that the driver tried to take away the weapon he had,” before shooting him, the police spokesman said. According to media reports, the alleged perpetrator of the attack was an Israeli Arab from Kafer Qasem.a predominantly Arab city in central Israel.

The incident took place in the middle sharp increase in violence in the region in the middle of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, and after another attack today that killed two Israeli women in the occupied West Bank.

Israel carried out several attacks in the past dawn in response to the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon following rocket attacks by Palestinian militants following days of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

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This year 2023 has become the deadliest start of the year in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. from the year 2000. In just over three months since the beginning of this year, 18 people have been killed in attacks by Palestinians or Arab-Israelis, and at least 92 Palestinians have been killed in various violent incidents with Israel. .

Last year Mr. Tel Aviv – liberal area and are rather isolated from the conflict dynamics in the rest of the region. been attacked several times which caused death. (EFE)