The Italian died and seven others were injured, in the car ramming attack in Tel-Aviv (photo credit: BBC).
On Saturday the 8th, police in Tel Aviv said a man drove a white Kia car alongside the beachside walk, hitting several pedestrians before overturning. The Israeli driver was killed by an Israeli police officer.
The victim was identified by the Italian government as Alessandro Parini. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed “deep sorrow” and “solidarity to the victim’s family, to the injured, for the cowardly attack that hit him,” her office said in a note late Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the scene of the attack, ordered the mobilization of police and army reservists to counter possible further attacks, his office said in a statement. Tensions are high in Israel following two nights of Israeli police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam’s third holiest site. Incidents that have widely been accepted as the instigating factors that has seen a sharp rise in violence.
As a further consequence of the Israeli provocations at the Al Aqsa mosque, rockets were fired from Lebanon, which formed the largest such barrage in 17 years.
Hamas did not confirm it had fired the rockets, but leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was visiting Lebanese capital Beirut at the time, said Palestinians would not “sit with their arms crossed” in the face of Israeli aggression.
