Israeli authorities reported that one person was killed and five others injured in a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv, hours after another attack in the Jordan Valley in Jordan killed two settlers and seriously injured another.

The Israeli ambulance said one person was killed in the operation, and five others were evacuated, two of them in serious condition from the Tel Aviv attack.

Israeli authorities said the dead in the Tel Aviv attack was an Italian tourist, while the Israeli ambulance said all the victims of the Tel Aviv attack were tourists.

The Israel Broadcasting Corporation (official) reported that the operation in Konish Tel Aviv was double and included a vehicular attack, then shooting, while the perpetrator was killed.

Operation Executor

The Israeli security services announced that Yousef Abu Jaber, from the town of Kafr Qasim in the south of the Triangle area inside the Green Line, was the perpetrator of the vehicular attack that took place in the Tel Aviv Corniche area tonight.

According to the Israeli police, the perpetrator is forty-five years old and has no security record. She said he used his family's car to carry out the operation.

Israeli police said the attacker deliberately ran over a pedestrian car before his car overturned, swerving and climbing onto the sidewalk, running over a group of pedestrians and then overturning. Police also confirmed that a police officer rushed to the scene to help, and noticed that the driver of the car tried to get out and display a weapon in his possession, so he hurried and shot and killed him.


Images broadcast by Israeli media showed the moment the Israeli police officer shot the suspect in the vehicular attack in Tel Aviv.

Israel's Channel 12 said the attacker fired from the window of his car at passers-by, then his car overturned in the Charles Clare area, and he tried to escape and was killed by police.

Mobilization

After the Tel Aviv attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the mobilization of more army police reserves.

"The prime minister instructed the Israel Police to mobilize all reserve border police units and ordered the IDF to mobilize additional forces to counter terrorist attacks," a statement from Netanyahu's office said.

The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that the commander of the Border Guard forces ordered the recall of 4 units in addition to 6 units currently operating.

Al Jazeera correspondent Guevara al-Budairi reported that Netanyahu held a number of security meetings during the past six hours with the heads of the security services in view of the state of major security escalation after the Tel Aviv and Jordan Valley operations.

Feedback

On Friday evening, Palestinian factions considered that the Tel Aviv attack was a response to Israel's crimes against Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinians.

In the first comment on the operation, the spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Abdul Latif al-Qanou said that the Tel Aviv operation demonstrates the ability of the resistance and its youth to strike the occupation, stressing that the operations to respond to the crimes of the occupation in Al-Aqsa are escalating and will not stop until the arrogance of the occupation is broken.

Islamic Jihad said, "We bless the Tel Aviv operation, and we affirm that it is a legitimate response to the crimes of the occupation and its attacks on our people and holy sites."

The Popular Resistance Committees saw the Tel Aviv operation as "a strong blow to Israeli security, and confirmation that revenge for Al-Aqsa has not and will not end."

For its part, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said the operation "comes in response to the crimes of the occupation in Al-Aqsa Mosque and the aggression on the Gaza Strip."

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said that the Tel Aviv operation was a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and its repeated attacks and incursions into Al-Aqsa.


Jordan Valley Operation

Earlier on Friday, the Israeli ambulance service said that two settlements were killed and a third seriously wounded on Friday in a shooting in the Hamra area, east of the town of Tubas in the Jordan Valley (northeastern West Bank), as the Israeli military command ordered the reinforcement of forces in the West Bank.

An Israeli army spokesman said that the three settlements came under armed attack at the Hamra junction, east of the town of Tubas, before the attackers withdrew, and Al Jazeera correspondent Samir Abu Shamala said the injured settlement was in critical condition.

The spokesman said that security forces were pursuing what the terrorists called the perpetrators of the Jordan Valley attack after the forces imposed a security cordon in the area and at the entrances and exits in Jericho and Nablus. He said the car was initially suspected of being involved in a traffic accident, but there were bullet marks inside.

Assault Weapon

Israeli Army Radio said the attacks on the settlements were carried out with a Kalashnikov.

Video showed an Israeli ambulance helicopter and ambulance at the scene of the shooting, while the Israel Broadcasting Corporation broadcast a video it said showed the moment of the Jordan Valley attack.

Israeli media published pictures of the moment the Israeli car was shot from a car parked on the side of the road, and waited for the Israeli women's car to come and shot at them before fleeing.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant would hold security meetings to assess the situation.

The Minister of Defense directed the use of all capabilities and capabilities for what he called the arrest of the perpetrators of the attacks, and called for the reinforcement of the army forces in the West Bank and keeping them on alert on the fronts with Gaza and Lebanon.

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy directed the mobilization and call-up of reservists, with a focus on air defense and aviation.