The attackers, identified as two Israeli Arabs, were slaughtered by special forces at the attack, in Hadera.
Le Monde with AFP
Two police officers are dead and several people were injured in an attack in the Israeli city of Hadera (North), Sunday, March 27 at night.
Dudu Boani, senior police officer in this region, said that special forces had killed the attackers, two Israeli Arabs identified by Israeli intelligence as local agents of the Islamic State (EI). A few hours later, the organization claimed the attack in a statement.
“Two members of the Jewish police forces were killed and many were injured in an infiltrated commando attack,” said EI in this communiqué, broadcast by the AMAQ propaganda site.
The images of Hadera’s surveillance cameras, town between Tel Aviv and Haifa, show two men opening fire to the automatic weapon in a street where cars circle.
“Two members of the border police unit counterfeit units that were in a restaurant close to the place of attack came out and neutralized the attackers,” said France-Presse (AFP) a Israeli security source. Soon after, the forces of the order quadrillaized from the Pans of Umm el-Fahm, Arab city about twenty kilometers from Hadera, indicated witnesses.
Ayman Odeh, leader of the united list, a group of Israeli Arab political parties concentrating his support in the north of the country, sentenced the attack, believing that she “had nothing to do with the fight policy that the Arab public leads for its rights “.
In different releases, the Palestinian armed Islamist movements of Hamas and Jihad Islamic greeted “the heroic operation of Hadera”, Hamas saying, without claiming the organization, which it had been “carried out in response At the top of standardization on our land “.
An attack in full international diplomacy
The attack intervenes while Israel welcomes Sunday and Monday a summit bringing together the heads of the United States diplomacy, Egypt, Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in a locality of the Negev desert (South ).
The Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, held consultations in the evening with the Chief of Police and the Army, while the Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, who had spoken earlier during the day at Jerusalem with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, went to Hadera, where, according to his office, he spoke with local officials.
The Head of Israeli Diplomacy, Yaïr Lapid, said they “informed” the participants at the top of the Negev. “All foreign ministers condemned the attack and transmitted their condolences to the families of the victims,” he said in a statement.
Tuesday, March 22, two men and two women were killed in a knife attack and car Aries in Beersheva, the main town of the Negev desert. Knife aggression against Israeli forces take place sporadically in Jerusalem and are often the fact of Palestinians without connection with the EI.
Beersheva’s assailant was identified by the authorities as Mohammed Abu al-Kiyan, a teacher from the Bedouine city of Hura, in the Negev, sentenced in 2016 to four years in prison for planning to go to Syria to fight within the Islamic State Organization and for counsels doing its apology.