Tuesday’s attack in Jaffa left seven dead and sixteen injured
The death toll from Tuesday’s attack at a tram station in Jaffa, on the city’s border with Tel Aviv, rose to seven overnight, after the death of one of the wounded was announced, according to the Israeli police. The latter stated that another sixteen people were injured. The two attackers, Palestinians from the West Bank, were killed.
“The injured man arrived [aux urgences] in critical condition (…) and after fighting to save her, the doctors had to declare her dead.”reported the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Previously, the police announced that six people had died and another nine had been injured to varying degrees in this attack with an automatic weapon and knife perpetrated by “two terrorists”who were killed by passersby using their personal weapons.
The attack occurred around 7:00 p.m. local time, shortly before Iran launched an attack against Israel by firing about two hundred missiles towards the Tel Aviv area, at the Sderot-Jerusalem tram stop. The attackers used “an M-16 automatic rifle, several magazines and a knife” AND “They began their massacre by entering the tram stopped at the station and opening fire on the passengers”before shooting at passers-by on Jerusalem Avenue, highlights the police published on Wednesday morning.
One of the attackers, Mohammed Misk, 19, was shot dead in the street and the other, Ahmed Al-Haïmoni, was wounded and taken to a hospital in serious condition, according to police. Both were originally from the city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. According to police, Israeli security forces arrested several people in Jerusalem and Hebron overnight suspected of having helped the two. perpetrators of the attack, who had not been claimed until midday on Wednesday.
Three of those killed in the attack were identified by Israeli media as Israelis: two women, Shahar Goldman (30), and Inbar Segev Vigder (33), and a 24-year-old man, Revival Bornstein. Another victim is said to be a Georgian national.
