A man in his thirties was killed and five others were wounded on the evening of Friday, April 7, in an attack in central Tel Aviv, Israel, according to Israeli relief reports. Reached by AFP, the police spoke of a "terrorist attack against civilians, a car-ramming attack".

Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, said it had found a 30-year-old man dead and evacuated five wounded to hospitals in the Tel Aviv area after the attack on Kaufmann Street, the main thoroughfare along the beach. Three of the injured are moderately, including a 17-year-old girl, and two lightly, according to this source.

"All the victims are tourists," the MDA said in a statement, without elaborating. The attack occurred on Shabbat night and during Passover week, amid an upsurge in violence in recent days in the Middle East.

"Mobilize all reserve units"

Israel announced Friday night the mobilization of reserve police units and additional soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "ordered the Israel Police to mobilize all reserve units of the Border Police, and [the army] to mobilize additional forces to deal with terrorist attacks," a statement from his office said.

Earlier Friday, two Israeli-British sisters, aged 16 and 20, from the Israeli settlement of Efrat, were killed and their mother seriously wounded in a Palestinian attack in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

Friday's two attacks come after Israeli strikes in Gaza and Lebanon against positions of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in response to dozens of rockets fired into its territory.

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The flare-up follows the brutal eruption of Israeli forces and violence Wednesday at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site. International condemnation has multiplied and Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, denounced an "unprecedented crime" by Israel, in the middle of Ramadan.

With AFP

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