In Tel Aviv, one dead in a gun attack, the Palestinian assailant killed

2023-08-05 21:26:54

In Tel Aviv, this Saturday evening, a man was seriously injured in a “terrorist attack” with a firearm, announced the Israeli emergency and security services. “The man in intensive care was taken to hospital,” said Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. Later that evening, the hospital finally announced his death. Hen Amir, 42, married with three children “was killed while preventing a major attack with his body and saved many lives with his death”, according to the hospital.

The hospital later announced the death of the Palestinian assailant, identified by the Internal Security Service (Shin Beth) as Kamal Abu Bahar, 22, from the Jenin region in the occupied West Bank. He was a supporter of Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group according to the Shin Bet.

In the aftermath of the death of two Palestinians

According to the police, “Inspectors from the Tel Aviv municipality noticed a young man who aroused their suspicions and asked to check him. At this time, the suspect opened fire on an inspector, who was seriously injured (…) Another municipal inspector managed to neutralize the terrorist”. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the “vigilance of the agents of the urban security patrol (…) who made it possible to thwart a much more serious attack”.

The attack comes a day after two young Palestinians, 18 and 19, died in the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967. The first was killed by Israeli soldiers and the other by settlers during clashes, according to the ministry. of Palestinian Health. Abdel Latif al-Qanou, the spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Palestinian Gaza Strip, hailed the Tel Aviv attack as “a response to the crimes of the occupation and the settlers against our people”, without claiming it.

Since early 2023, the West Bank, territory occupied by Israel since 1967, has been the scene of a series of attacks by Palestinians against Israeli targets, as well as violence committed by Israeli settlers against Palestinians. At least 208 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of this year in violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as 27 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian, according to an AFP count compiled from official sources.