Italian tourist killed in Israel car-ramming attack
In a car-ramming attack on Friday night in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, an Italian tourist was killed and seven other persons were injured.
According to Israeli police, a car was driven into the Tel Aviv boardwalk’s bike lane, striking pedestrians before flipping over on a grass.
Before murdering the motorist, Israeli police claimed that when officers got at the scene, “they spotted the driver trying to reach for what looked like a rifle-like weapon that was with him.”
Authorities in Israel and Italy have identified the victim of the incident as Alessandro Parini. He was described as a 35-year-old lawyer by Italian media.The prime minister of Italy, Georgia Meloni, expressed her “deep condolences” for the passing of Alessandro Parini in the Tel Aviv terrorist attack on Friday evening in a tweet. She also denounced the “cowardly attack that hit him.”
According to Ichilov Medical Center, three of the seven victims of the incident were still being treated in hospitals as of Saturday AM local time. Tourists made up the whole list of people killed or hurt in the incident.
East of Tel Aviv in the Israeli Arab city of Kfar Kasem, a 45-year-old man lived, according to the police.
The act was referred to by Israeli police as a “terror attack.”
As Israel bombed Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza, the incident took place amid rising tensions in the area due to police raids on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa shrine.
Mansour Abbas, the head of the United Arab List and a member of the Knesset, condemned the “use of violence against any citizen.”
This is not the way of the Arab community and Arab citizens in Israel, I must repeat, especially in these trying times,” Abbas stated on Saturday.