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The armed operation on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv, yesterday evening, Thursday - which resulted in the killing of two Israelis and the wounding of 14 others - brought to mind the bombing operations in the heart of Israel, and its godfather, Engineer Yahya Ayyash, operations that constituted a pivotal station in the resistance march. Palestinian occupation of Israel.
A year and a half after the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government, the godfather of the bombing operations opened the conflict again wide through the bombing operations in the depths of Israeli cities, which destabilized the security and personal safety of the Israelis.
Faced with the inability of the Israeli security services to thwart the bombing attacks, on October 19, 1994, Ayyash transferred the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the heart of Tel Aviv by carrying out the first bombing attack in the city, which targeted bus No. 5 on Dizengoff Street, which left 22 people dead. An Israeli soldier and 50 wounded.
On March 4, 1996, the conflict returned to Tel Aviv through the bombing attack carried out at the entrance to the "Dizengoff" shopping center, which killed 13 Israelis and wounded 130 others. January 1996.
Again, after 28 years, Dizengoff Street returns to the face of the conflict. The street, which is the lifeblood of Tel Aviv, witnessed an armed operation, the fourth armed operation carried out in deep Israeli cities within two weeks, leaving 13 dead and dozens wounded.
Operation Dizengoff came to perpetuate the feeling of loss of security and safety for the Israelis, and the fragility of the Israeli security apparatus, which failed to prevent further armed operations, and failed to prevent bombing operations in the mid-nineties of the last century.
Chaos, confusion, and ambiguity
Hours after the operation, the Israeli radio announced that the security forces had killed the perpetrator of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, hours after an attack by the attacker that killed two Israelis and wounded 14 others, after hours of search operations, and this coincided with the transfer of tension to the West Bank. The settlers attacked the Palestinians and wounded two by the Israeli army’s bullets. The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) said through its secretary in Jenin that the perpetrator of the attack was Raad Hazem, one of the leaders of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Fatah movement in the Jenin area.
As of 9:20 pm yesterday, Thursday, the final outcome of the number of dead and wounded was not known, nor was the perpetrator known.
Hours after the operation, Tel Aviv police chief Ami Esheed said, "We have no idea where he came from, and we don't know what his identity is."
Several kilometers along Dizengoff Street, police and rescue workers begged civilians at the site of the operation, "This is an active yard, everyone stays away from this place."
Thus, in the heart of Tel Aviv, there was a state of chaos, confusion and mystery, reflected in the roaming of hundreds of policemen and security forces, from different units, where they drew their weapons, but none of them was able to locate the outlet.
In the absence of information, any eyewitness became a valuable source of Israeli intelligence, and every few minutes a different force of police began incursions into the alleys adjacent to Dizengoff Street, then stormed residential buildings, which also expanded to other lanes close to the site of the operation, following a report of the possibility of the presence of the port;
Here in the restroom of a nearby store, or in the stairwell of a building on a nearby street.
Hours after the operation, the port was unknown (Anatolia)
cracked security theory
Operation Dizengoff came to show the crack in the theory and the security system that the Israeli military has been refining through Operation Defensive Wall, which was the invasion of the West Bank on March 29, 2002, led at the time by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who launched the construction of the apartheid wall, in An attempt to suppress the second intifada and to eliminate the resistance operations, and for the sake of separation and separation from the Palestinians;
To provide security and safety for the Israelis.
Tel Aviv, which the Israelis consider "the Little State of Israel", returned yesterday evening - with the sounds of bullets that came from the "Elka Bar" and penetrated the memory of oblivion of its residents - to collide with the virtual reality of the nightlife in the city, which the occupation sought to distance, neutralize and even isolate it from the essence of the conflict with Palestinians, and to wake up to the real reality of the Israeli occupation.
On January 1, 2016, Dizengoff Street witnessed an armed attack, when an armed person opened fire in the Hasimta-alley bar, killing 3 Israelis and wounding 7 others.
The perpetrator of the shooting - named Nashat Melhem from a Palestinian 48 - was able to withdraw in a taxi after killing its owner, and after 7 days, the "Al-Yamam" unit for combating "terrorism" managed to liquidate and kill him in the town of Arara, his hometown.
A state of confusion and anxiety after the operation (Anatolia) l
Tel Aviv is turning into a ghost town
The same scenario was repeated in more complex details in light of vague and ambiguous facts. For a few minutes after nine in the evening yesterday, Thursday, on the way to “Dizengoff” Street in Tel Aviv, only terrified people could be seen, as a result of the armed operation, amid conflicting information that increased the blurring of the scene. It deepened the feelings of fear and apprehension, as Tel Aviv turned into a ghost town, and Dizengoff Street into a war zone.
With the failure of the Israeli security services to arrest the perpetrator of the armed attack hours later;
She was absent from Tel Aviv - nicknamed by Israel as "the city that never sleeps.. a life without stopping" - nights and nights, and closed its bars, discos and restaurants, while the security sway and sirens of security forces vehicles that chased the outlet in vain in Tel Aviv alley, so that this information remained In this regard, in the context of speculation, in contrast to the previous operations and even the bombing operations that Ayyash founded, where after hours they were deciphered and the perpetrators revealed.
Dizengoff Street witnessed a large security presence (Anatolia)
Between Operation Coast and Dizengoff
As the security operation continued, a joint operations room was established for the police, the army, and the Shin Bet security service, where the Israeli security establishment mobilized more than a thousand police, border guards and the special unit "Al-Yamam" to Tel Aviv, and the police asked residents to stay in their homes for long hours, Where more and more people were seen fleeing from the unknown and the repercussions of the armed operation, searching for a way out of the new security reality that plagues Tel Aviv's life.
In evidence of the failure of the Israeli police to combat operations inside Israeli cities and for fear of losing control in the heart of Tel Aviv, which is the backbone of commercial, economic, and tourism life, as well as the world of technology and high-tech, and teeming with night life, the security services used forces from the Israeli army, in an effort to enhance the feeling of security and safety among the residents, and in An attempt to show that security control in Tel Aviv is not lost.
In the face of the inability to directly arrest the perpetrator hours after Operation Dizengoff, the escalation of individual resistance operations and the cracking of the coalition of Naftali Bennett's government, the Israeli security establishment involved elements of the General Staff unit "Siert Matkal" that was deployed in "Dizengoff" and the main roads and central boulevards And for the first time since the "coastal operation" north of Tel Aviv, which was carried out by Dalal Al-Mughrabi with her squad on March 11, 1978, which brings the conflict back to square one in historic Palestine.