A Palestinian gunman shot and killed an Israeli safety guard in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night, in what the Israeli police described as a terrorist assault.
The sufferer, Chen Amir, 42, was taken to a close-by hospital, the place he was pronounced lifeless. The shooter was additionally shot and killed on the scene, by one other safety guard, the police mentioned. A close-by mass protest towards Israel’s judicial overhaul proceeded as deliberate.
The gunman was later recognized by the police as a 27-year-old resident of Jenin, a metropolis within the Israeli-occupied West Bank that Israeli troopers raided final month in an try to forestall militants from utilizing it as a protected haven.
The assault prolonged an intense run of violence through which the demise charges on each side this 12 months have been already far increased than within the equal interval of 2022. Palestinian militancy and Israeli settler extremism have each risen sharply as Israel’s authorities — probably the most right-wing in its historical past — has taken swift steps to entrench Israel’s 56-year occupation of the West Bank.
Mr. Amir was one in all greater than 30 Israelis killed in Arab assaults thus far this 12 months, most of them shot by Palestinian gunmen.
His demise got here lower than a day after a Palestinian civilian, Qusai Matan, 19, was shot and killed throughout an altercation with Israeli settlers on the outskirts of a Palestinian village within the central West Bank. Palestinian officers mentioned Mr. Matan was killed by a settler, and two Israelis have been later arrested by the Israeli police.
Mr. Matan is one in all greater than 200 Palestinians killed in preventing thus far this 12 months, most of them throughout clashes between Israeli troopers and Palestinian militants within the West Bank, or throughout Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli authorities has given the go-ahead to hundreds of recent settlement houses, accelerated the method by which new houses are approved, and given retroactive permission to 9 settlements constructed with out authorities authorization.
The quantity of settler-led assaults on Palestinians is sort of 40 % increased than through the equal interval of 2022, which was itself probably the most violent on report, in line with information launched on Friday by the United Nations.
Source: www.nytimes.com