A Palestinian killed two people in a very lively artery of the coastal city Thursday, which constitutes the fourth attack in two weeks.
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A new attack, the fourth in two weeks, threatened Thursday, April 7 to shake a febrile Israeli government, deprived the day before its majority in Parliament, and on which the opposition was raining in recent days the accusations of ” weakness “. The attack has started the center of Tel Aviv. Around 9 pm, a Palestinian opened the fire towards the ilka bar terrace, with what looked a handgun on an amateur video. He killed two people and caused a panic movement on Dizengoff Avenue, a very busy artery in this last weekend before the Jewish Passover.
Fifteen people were hospitalized, four operated at night. A thousand police officers and the military’s special forces have de facto placed the center of the metropolis under curfew for nine o’clock, before killing the assailant around 6 o’clock in the morning. The interior intelligence had located this 28-year-old terrorist near a mosque of the ancient Palestinian city of Jaffa, today a peripheral district of Tel Aviv. Since March 22, armed attacks in Israel have caused the death of 13 civilians.
Friday morning, inhabitants of the refugee camp of Jenin, in occupied West Bank since 1967, celebrated the “martyrdom” of the author of the attack of Tel Aviv, a name called Raed Hazem, identified as the son of a local family. Between January 1 and March 21, the Israeli army killed 18 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including Jerusalem-East, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Office (OCHA). Three of them led isolated attacks against Israelis.
“Natural answer” to the “crimes” of Israel
Last week, the army had led a series of raids in the region, from which originally had originated the author of the previous attack, who had made five dead in the heart of the Ultraorthodox Jewish community in Bnei Brak ( center). In a rare demonstration of force, the army had led about thirty arrests in daylight in Jenin camp, in semi-insurgency for a year. They were aimed at the sympathizers of the Islamic Jihad, little sister army organization of Hamas. Three of his fighters had been killed in these raids. Thursday evening, the Jihad “greeted” the attack of Tel Aviv, whom he considers as a “natural answer” to the “crimes” of Israel, including the raid of Jenin.
This attack occurs while the Israeli government, in power since June 2021, is weakened by the defection of a MP for the Religious Far Right, a member of the Prime Minister’s Party, Naftali Bennett (5 seats), who deprives from his short majority to Knesset (60 out of 120). His training heavily affect his break with his former “family” political, led by the former Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. This leaves the government facing a dilemma.
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