An Italian died and others five tourists were injured Friday night in Tel Aviv and terrorist attack claimed by Hamas. The driver of a vehicle ran over the crowd in the promenade of the city hours after the largest escalation of violence on the border of Israel and Lebanon since 2006. The fatal victim responds to the name of Alessandro Parini and was 36 years old, reported the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, who condemned the ” cowardly attack”. Of the injured, between the ages of 17 and 74, three are British, one is also Italian and the origin of the other is unknown for now.
The attacker invaded the bike lane of the central street and ran over the passers-by at high speed gardens Charles Clore until the car overturned. A policeman and municipal agents who were nearby shot him down when he was trying to get hold of a weapon. Authorities identified him as a 45-year-old man from Kfar Kassem, an Arab town in central Israel.
Hamas claims the “legitimacy” of the attack
He Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, which it described as an “operation carried out by a person of our heroic town“. “It occurs in the context of the natural and legitimate response to the aggression of the occupation and its fascist government against the Al Aqsa holy mosque and those present and those detained there, for the continuation of the crimes of Zionist extremists and their terrorist gangs,” he said.
He new outbreak of violence was unleashed on Wednesday after the raid by Israeli forces on the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holy site of the islam and in full celebrations of the ramadan. The irruption had an immediate response, with the launch of a thirty rockets from Lebanon against Israel on Thursday, the day of the Jewish Passover, and crossfire on the border between the two countries.
He israeli army responded with attacks in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip against positions of the Palestinian Hamas movement early Friday morning. Hours later, two British-Israeli sisters were killed in another terror attack near the northern settlement of Hamra. west bank. Several attackers shot at her car and also wounded her mother, who is in critical condition.
In this sense, in the communiqué on the Tel Aviv attack, Hamas also praised the “sacrifice and courage” of Muslims in Jerusalem and at the Al Aqsa Mosque and calls for them to continue with “resistance actions”.
“Pay the Price”
Following the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a “firm reaction” and ordered the mobilization of all reservists of the border police and additional forces of the Army. “We will hit our enemies and make them pay the price for each aggression,” he said.
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For his part, USA He expressed his support for Israel and said that “attacking innocent civilians of any nationality is inadmissible,” said his diplomacy spokesman, Vedant Patel.
Since April 2022, no rockets have been launched from Lebanon towards Israel, which then also carried out attacks against its neighbor. However, this is the most serious incident since the 2006 war against Hezbollah. “The threats and intimidation of the Zionist leaders will not lead to anything,” said Naim Qasem, second in command of the Shiite movement, which de facto controls southern Lebanon, on Friday. “The entire axis of resistance is on alert,” he added.