Hamas says it carried out Jaffa shooting attack
Hamas’s military wing has claimed responsibility for a mass shooting in Tel Aviv that left seven people dead and many others wounded.
It said the two attackers, who opened fire on a boulevard and train station in Jaffa on Tuesday evening, were its fighters and hailed from the southern West Bank city of Hebron.
The attack came moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel, sending people into bomb shelters across the country.
Israeli border guards deploy at the scene of a shooting attack along Jersalem Boulevard in Jaffa south of Tel Aviv on Tuesday
And the cycle of violence continues, more terrorist attacks instead of less.
Israeli forces escalate repressive measures in Hebron
Israeli forces imposed a curfew on Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, and detained and abused several young men, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The heightened repressive measures came a day after two Palestinian men from Hebron opened fire in Jaffa, a neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, killing seven people and injuring several more. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, which came just minutes before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel.
The curfew in Hebron, imposed on three neighbourhoods in the city, would last through the end of the Jewish holidays next Sunday, Israeli forces told residents. Two months ago, the military cut off the same three neighbourhoods from the rest of city, sealing off their entrances and exits with barbed wire.
Hebron is home to some 160,000 Palestinians and about 800 Israelis in illegal settlements who live there with the protection of the Israeli military.
Escalation will lead to ‘further instability’ in the region: Ex US official
A former US State Department official, who resigned earlier this year in protest against the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, warned that the recent escalation risked destabilising several countries in the region.
Annelle Sheline, whose work for the US government focused on the promotion of democracy and human rights, said the next steps Israel and the US take could lead to a broader crisis and impact countries whose governments’ relationships with Israel and the US are in contrast with the populations’ sentiments about the war in Gaza.
She cited Jordan and Saudi Arabia as countries with “significant amounts of oppression and disconnect between the regime’s support for the US and Israel … in contrast to the people who live there”.
“Who knows at which point this might eventually manifest?” Sheline said. “But I do very much see further fraying and erosion of legitimacy of some of these governments.
“This will just lead to further instability down the road, as violence so often does.”
Israel’s army has wiped out 902 Gaza families, officials say
“In one year, 902 families have been wiped off the civil registry,” the Government Media Office in Gaza said in a statement.
In 1,364 cases, all family members except for one survivor were killed, the office said. In 3,472 cases, only two members of the same family survived.
