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An Italian vacationer was killed and 7 individuals wounded in a car-ramming assault within the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv on Friday night.
Israeli police stated a automobile was pushed onto the bike path of the Tel Aviv boardwalk, hitting pedestrians earlier than it overturned on a garden.
When law enforcement officials arrived on the scene, “they noticed the driver trying to reach for what looked like a rifle-like object that was with him” earlier than killing him, Israeli police stated.
The man killed within the assault has been named by Israeli and Italian authorities as Alessandro Parini. Italian media stated he was a 35-year-old lawyer.
In a tweet posted Friday, Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni expressed “deep condolences for the death of one of our compatriots, Alessandro Parini, in the terrorist attack that took place in the evening in Tel Aviv,” and condemned the “cowardly attack that hit him.”
Three of the seven individuals injured within the assault are nonetheless in hospital as of Saturday morning native time, in keeping with Ichilov Medical Center. All of these killed or injured within the assault have been vacationers.
Police stated that the automobile was pushed by a 45-year-old resident of Kfar Kasem, an Arab-Israeli metropolis east of Tel Aviv.
Israeli authorities described the incident as a “terror attack.”
The assault occurred after Israel struck Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza, amid days of tensions within the area following police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The chief of the United Arab List and Knesset Member Mansour Abbas rejected any “use of violence against any citizen.”
“Especially in these difficult times, it’s important for me to emphasize… this is not the way of the Arab community and Arab citizens in Israel,” Abbas stated Saturday.
Source: www.cnn.com