At least three people were killed Thursday night in an attack in Elad, an Israeli town located in the large suburbs of Tel Aviv, the latest to date targeting the Jewish state celebrating th Its 74th anniversary.
Police did not provide details on the identity of the perpetrators and the circumstances of the attack which, according to Magen David Adom (MDA), the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, also injured four people, including three seriously. .
This is the sixth anti-Israeli attack since March 22. It took place in the city of Elad (center), which has approximately 50,000 inhabitants, including many ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have brush aggression heroismcalled it reaction tension in Jerusalem.
The scene of the attack is complicatedaccording to Israeli rescuer Alon Rizkan, of MDAsaying he saw a 40-year-old man dead near a roundabout, then another unconscious man in a nearby park, who was later killed, and another next to him who died of his injuries .
Shortly after the attack, which has not yet been claimed, police and soldiers crisscrossed Elad, an AFP photographer noticed, as Israeli media suggested the killers were running.
The attack has brought to 18 the number of people killed in anti-Israeli attacks since March 22, some committed by Israeli Arabs and others Palestinians.
In the wake of the initial attacks, Israeli forces conducted a series of operations in the occupied West Bank. In all, at least 26 Palestinians, including the attackers, have been killed in violence since March 22nd.
300 wounded on the esplanade of the Mosques
At the same time, clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians have left nearly 300 injured on the Esplanade des Mosques, located in the Palestinian part of Jerusalem, which has been occupied since 1967 by Israel.
This operation witnessed the anger of our people at the attacks of conquest against the holy places.Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said about the attack in Elad.
The attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque will inevitably go unpunishedit added officials of the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian enclave with 2.3 million inhabitants under Israeli blockade.
Desecration by occupying forces [nom donné à la police et l’armée israélienne par des Palestiniens, NDLR] and the settler gangs in Al-Aqsa crossed all the red linesadded Muhammad Hamid Abu Al-Hassan, of the political office of Islamic Jihad.
Earlier on Thursday, new clashes erupted between Israeli police and Palestinians on the esplanade of Mosques, where Jewish worshipers began to increase despite fears of further escalation of violence.
After a break of several days associated with the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jewish worshipers descended on the esplanade on Thursday, the anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel that coincided with the end of the Muslim celebration of Eid al. -Fitr.
By virtue of the unspoken status quo, non -Muslims can visit the esplanade – the third holiest place in Islam and the holiest place in Judaism under its name which temple mountain – but not praying. However, a growing number of Jews are coming there and the fact that some of them are secretly praying there has raised fears that this status quo will challenge many Muslims.
Talking to Jordan
In recent weeks, the Israeli government of Naftali Bennett has reiterated that it does not want to change the status quo enforced on the esplanade, a hotbed of tensions in Jerusalem, and has spoken to Jordan, a neighboring country that oversees the holy place. Muslims, in the hope of avoiding extremism.
The Israeli government, which controls access to the site, maintained its reopening to Jews on Thursday despite calls from Palestinian officials and countries in the region fearing new clashes.
The decision of the Bennett government was an official Israeli declaration of religious war that would ignite the entire regionsaid the Palestinian Foreign Ministry.
Source: Radio-Canada