Israel announced yesterday, Friday evening, the mobilization of police reserves and army reinforcements after the death of three people, including an Italian tourist, in two attacks, amid new escalation of tension in the Middle East.

At approximately 21:35 local time (and Greek time), a driver crashed into pedestrians on a bike path on Kaufman Avenue, Tel Aviv’s main coastal artery, causing his car to overturn, killing a 36-year-old man. said. .

In Rome, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed that the man was Italian citizen Alessandro Parini and expressed her condolences to his family.

The attack also injured 7 people aged between 17 and 74, according to Magen David Adom (Star of David), a similar Red Cross service. Among those being treated at the Isilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, there are 4 tourists: 3 British and 1 Italian.

NEW: Footage of car ramming in Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/RIf32Wv586

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) April 7, 2023

A police officer and municipal security personnel who were nearby killed the driver when they realized he was trying to draw a gun, police said. This is a 45-year-old man from Kfar Qasem, an Arab city in central Israel.

Following the terrorist attack during the week of Passover, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered the Israeli police to mobilize all reserve units of the Border Guard and (in the army) to mobilize additional forces to deal with terrorist attacks.” to his office.

Previously, two sisters from the Israeli settlement of Euphrates, aged 16 and 20, respectively, were killed and their mother seriously injured in an attack in the West Bank.

Two sisters, who had Israeli and British citizenship, were killed by Palestinians who shot at the car they were traveling in in the north-eastern part of the Palestinian territory, which has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.

The US announced that it was “supporting” Israel in the aftermath of these attacks. “Attacking innocent citizens of any nationality is unacceptable,” said State Department spokesman Vedan Patel.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}