It appears that a terrorist attack occurred in Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv. According to initial assessments, police suspect it was a targeted attack.
Shortly before the Iranian missile attack on Israel, several people were killed in a gun and knife attack in the southern Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. Information about the victims varies: according to security forces, eight people were killed in the incident that occurred in Jaffa, an Arab-majority area of Tel Aviv. Other sources talk about six or four dead. Therefore, the dead are civilians.
The suspected perpetrators were “neutralized”.
The Israeli police spoke of a terrorist attack. The two suspected perpetrators were “neutralized”, according to police. According to Israeli media, they are believed to have died. The exact motive for the crime was not initially clear.
Local media also reported that the suspected perpetrators attacked people waiting at the tram stop.