• Middle East An armed attack causes at least two deaths in northern Israel

A downtown area near Tel Aviv has been the scene tonight of the

third terrorist attack in seven days in Israel.

A motorist arrived in the town of Bnei Brak and shot passers-by at point-blank range in two different locations, killing

five people before being killed.

In this way, they join the six killed in two attacks committed by Arabs with Israeli nationality and sympathizers of the Islamic State in Beer Sheva (Tuesday) and Hadera (Sunday).

The Palestinian factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad

have been quick to praise the new attack

that returns Israelis to the worst moments of the Second Intifada 20 years ago.

After 8:00 p.m., the Palestinian attacker arrived by motorcycle at the busy Jabotinski street that connects Tel Aviv with Bnei Brak and other central locations, got off the motorcycle and killed three people with his M16 rifle.

Later, he went to a street in the neighboring city of Ramat Gan and continued shooting until he was shot down by security personnel.

Police officers arrested his assistant and

are still searching for the third member of the Palestinian commando.

While the three perpetrators of the two attacks in the last week were members of the Arab sector in Israel, this time it is a Palestinian from the north of the West Bank

.

Dia Hamarsha,

27, was in jail nine years ago for belonging to a terrorist group.

Currently, he was living illegally in Israel and working in the area where he has spread panic in Israel.

According to the first reports, and despite the fact that the West Bank area of ​​his origin is a stronghold of Islamic Jihad, he was

linked to the Al Fatah group.

While dozens of Palestinians shouted songs of joy after the attack, including the traditional distribution of sweets, near Hamarsha's house in the village of Yabat near Jenin, the Israeli Prime Minister,

Naftali Bennett

, met tonight with the Minister of Defense (Benny Gantz) and Internal Security (Omer Bar-Lev) and the heads of the security agencies.

"Israel is facing a wave of murderous Arab terror. We will fight terrorism with an iron fist, the prime minister warned," Bennett said after the ninth attack in March.



Bennett and the foreign minister, the centrist

Yair Lapid

, face their most difficult test since in June they formed the most heterogeneous government in Israel's history, which for the first time includes an Arab party.

Right-wing protesters have demonstrated at the scene of the attack demanding his resignation while some have shouted "death to the Arabs".

Minutes later, one of the policemen who shot down the terrorist has died in hospital.



Precisely in fear of a wave of violence due to the month of Ramadan and threats from Palestinian groups, Israeli leaders and officials met in recent days with their counterparts from the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), including President

Abu Mazen

, and even with

King Abdullah II of Jordan

with great influence and authority in the Esplanade of the Mosques of Jerusalem.

In fact, the Israeli Defense Minister met this Tuesday in Amman with the Hashemite monarch and informed him of measures in favor of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.



The attack this Tuesday in a well-known ultra-Orthodox town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv also takes place on the eve of the official visit of the president of Israel,

Isaac Herzog

, to Jordan, invited by the king,


"Killing Palestinian and Israeli civilians will lead to nothing but the continued deterioration of the situation. We call on everyone to maintain stability, especially now that we are at the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan and Christian and Jewish holidays," he said. Abu Mazen.



After the two attacks linked to

the Islamic State

In recent days, the Israeli police arrested 12 Arab Israeli suspects of having a jihadist ideology with the potential to carry out attacks.

On this occasion, however, the author of the attack is a Palestinian from the West Bank, which could increase the tension in the conflict.

Something that Hamas is constantly looking for in the West Bank and Israel.

For now, the Israeli Army will reinforce with four battalions in the West Bank area occupied by Israel in the 1967 war.



"We will return security to the streets," Gantz promised while the Police have raised the state of alert throughout the country.

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