Four people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting near Israel’s defence ministry and main army headquarters in Tel Aviv, police say.
The incident on Wednesday night happened at the Sarona Market, an area with restaurants and cafes.
At least five others were injured in the shooting and taken to the nearby Ichilov Hospital.
Police initially said that there was only one attacker, but spokeswoman Meirav Lapidot later said two gunmen had been captured after carrying out what appeared to be “a terrorist attack”.
One of the shooters was taken in for questioning, and the other was taken to hospital.
Police said the attackers were two Palestinians from the same family from the town of Yatta, south of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Haaretz newspaper reported that the attackers were disguised as ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Police were searching the area to make sure there were no other attackers or possible bombs.
Since October 2015, increased tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel have boiled over into violence.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have killed at least 209 Palestinians, including alleged attackers and protesters since October.
Meanwhile, at least 30 Israelis have been killed in shooting and stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians, Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs says.(Al Jazeera)
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/israel-tel-aviv-shooting-160608190326052.html
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