Israel: A car-ramming attack injures seven in Tel Aviv
A car bombing killed seven people on Tuesday in Tel Aviv, as the Israeli army continued a large-scale operation in which 11 Palestinians were killed in the northern occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, hailed a “heroic” attack, speaking “of a first response to the crimes against our people in the Jenin camp”, where Israel has been carrying out its most important since Monday. military operation in the West Bank for several years.
A Palestinian man drove a car over civilians in north Tel Aviv on Tuesday, injuring seven before stabbing bystanders before being shot dead by a civilian.
At the scene of the attack, police chief Yaakov Shabtai said the “terrorist” was a West Bank resident who was shot dead by a passerby.
In Jenin, overflown by drones, shops remained closed on Tuesday, an AFP correspondent reported, on the second day of an operation mobilizing hundreds of Israeli soldiers in this city and the adjacent refugee camp.The almost deserted streets are strewn with debris and stones, the bitumen is gutted and the roadway is blackened around improvised barricades.
“The refugee camp is facing a disastrous situation,” Jenin Mayor Nidal Abu Saleh told AFP, referring to power and water cuts there.
“Open War”
The army announced that it had hit “a joint operations center” of a local armed group, the Jenin Brigade, and several targets including four “explosive manufacturing workshops”.
“One hundred and twenty Palestinian suspects” have been apprehended since Monday while “about 300 armed terrorists are still in Jenin, most of them in hiding”, the army said.“We will act as long as necessary to eradicate terrorism,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during a visit to a military base near Jenin on Tuesday.
“We will not allow Jenin to become a haven for terrorism again,” he added.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, 11 Palestinians have been killed and 100 injured, 20 of whom are in serious condition.
The city of Jenin and the refugee camp, a stronghold of Palestinian armed groups, have been repeatedly targeted by Israeli operations.The northern West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967, has seen a recent wave of attacks on Israelis as well as anti-Palestinian violence by Jewish settlers.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry denounced “an open war against the population in Jenin”.
“Worst raid in five years”
The fighting caused the exodus on Monday evening of “about 3,000” inhabitants of the camp, where some 18,000 Palestinians live, according to the deputy governor of Jenin, Kamal Abu al-Roub.
“We received many wounded”, in particular “by bullets”, affirmed Qassem Benighader, a nurse of 35 years in the hospital of Jenin: “It is the worst raid for five years. »According to a doctor at the Ibn Sina hospital in Jenin, the wounded died because they were not treated in time.
“Some died, others saw their condition worsen,” Dr. Tawfeek al-Shobaki testified on Tuesday, adding that the destruction committed by Israeli forces around the camp made it more difficult for vehicles to circulate.
“All options are on the table to strike the enemy,” warned the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh denounced a “brutal” Israeli operation.The Arab League announced an emergency meeting on Tuesday while Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, Arab countries with diplomatic ties with Israel, denounced the operation.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Tuesday denounced the violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank – which “must stop”.
Israel has “the right to defend itself”, but must respect the “proportionality of international law”, the German Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on the Israeli army “to show restraint in its operation and all parties to avoid an escalation”.
Violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has killed at least 189 Palestinians, 25 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count established from official sources.
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