In Israel, people were shot on the streets three times in a week: there are dead

Five people were killed in the city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv in a shooting on March 29 by a Palestinian from the West Bank, reports with the BBC.

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The attacker was shot dead by the police.

This is the third such armed attack in the past week. Both the current and former prime ministers of the country are talking about a “wave of terror” that has not been seen for many years.

The latest incident occurred in Bnei Brak, adjacent to Tel Aviv from the east, one of the spiritual centers of modern Judaism and Hasidism, most of whose residents are Orthodox Jews.

An Israeli police statement said a man armed with a rifle opened fire on passersby at two different points in Bnei Brak. Among the dead is the policeman who shot the attacker.

On March 29, Israeli TV channels aired amateur footage showing a man dressed in black walking down the street and shooting passers-by with a rifle, killing the driver of a passing car.

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Police said the attacker was a 26-year-old Palestinian who lived in the town of Yabad, near Jenin, in the northern West Bank. He previously served time in an Israeli prison for a crime against the country's security. Israel's security services were already on high alert following two previous street attacks by members of the country's Arab population.

On Sunday 27 March, two assailants shot and killed two 19-year-old police officers in the city of Hadera. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Prior to this, on Tuesday, March 22, in the city of Beersheba, a man with a knife attacked people near a shopping center, killing three, before hitting a cyclist with a car, who also died. According to police, the attacker had served time in an Israeli prison and was planning to join the Islamic State in Syria. It is not yet known whether the Palestinian who carried out the attack in Bnei Brak had ties to the Islamic State.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called an urgent government meeting on security issues, saying that "Israel is being hit by a wave of deadly Arab terrorism."

“We will fight terror with tenacity, tenacity and an iron fist,” Bennett promised.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that such a “wave of terrorism has not been seen in the country for many years” and also called for “decisive action to restore peace and security for the people of Israel.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned the attack. “This kind of violence is unacceptable,” he said. “Israelis, like everyone else in the world, should be able to live in peace and without fear.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also condemned the killings of Israelis, expressing concern that this could lead to a new escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “at a time when we so need stability.”
At the same time, representatives of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack, saying: “We bless the operation in Tel Aviv!”

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