Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack that left seven dead in Tel Aviv

2024-10-02 17:06:47

Two men opened fire on tram passengers and passers-by. A “heroic operation”, hailed the Al-Qassam Brigades in a press release published on Thursday.

Published on 02/10/2024 19:06

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Rescuers at the scene of an attack carried out in the Jaffa area, October 1, 2024 in Tel Aviv (Israel). (NIR KEIDAR/ANADOLU VIA AFP)

The military wing of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack the day before in which seven people were killed with automatic weapons and stabbed at a train station in Tel Aviv, in central Israel. “The Al-Qassam Brigades took responsibility for the heroic action in Jaffa by Qassam fighters Mohammed Rashid Misk and Ahmed Abdoulfattah Al-Haimoni from the city of Hebron”of those who occupy the West Bank, the movement said in a statement Wednesday, October 2, referring to the attacks in the Jaffa District of Tel Aviv.

The new death toll is seven, according to Israeli police. The identities of those killed have not been officially released by Israeli authorities. Only two of them were identified Wednesday morning by Israeli media: Shahar Goldman, 30, and Inbar Segev, 33, two Israelis. The Greek foreign Ministry also announced that a “Greek, living in Jerusalem” were among the victims.

Attacks are used “An M-16 automatic rifle, several magazines and a knife” etc “started their killing spree by stopping the tram car at the station, opening fire on the passengers”before shooting at passers-by on Jerusalem Avenue, according to a police statement released Wednesday morning. One of the attackers, 19-year-old Mohammed Misk, was shot dead in the street and the other, Ahmed Al-Haïmoni, was injured and taken to hospital in critical condition, according to police.

Both are from the city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, a Palestinian territory that Israel has occupied since 1967. According to the police, the Israeli security forces arrested several people at night in Jerusalem and Hebron who were suspected of having help the two terrorists of the attack.