Police said they suspect it was a militant attack and that the assailant fled in a vehicle.
Israeli medics say at least three people were killed in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday night. Police said they suspect it was a militant attack and that the assailant fled in a vehicle. Security forces set up roadblocks in the area around where the killings occurred, in the town of Elad, and a helicopter could be seen hovering over the area. The Magen David Adom emergency service said three people were killed and four others were wounded, adding that two of the wounded were in serious condition. The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack and linked it to violence at a holy site in Jerusalem, but did not claim responsibility for it. „The storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque can’t go unpunished,“ Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said. „The heroic operation in Tel Aviv is a practical translation of what the resistance had warned against.“ Israel marked its Independence Day on Thursday, a festive national holiday in which people typically hold barbecues and attend air shows. In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the attack appeared to be „the latest in what has been a string of despicable terrorist attacks that have rocked Israel.
