- By Yolande Knell and Christy Cooney
- BBC News, in Jerusalem and London
An Italian tourist has been killed and seven others injured in a suspected car attack near a beach in Tel Aviv, Israeli doctors say.
Italy’s foreign minister said Israel had identified the slain man as 36-year-old Italian citizen Alessandro Parini.
A doctor told Israeli television that the injured included three Britons and one Italian.
Footage from the scene showed an overturned car near a promenade and an Israeli police officer opening fire.
Local police said the alleged assailant was shot and killed by officers.
Tel Aviv police said at 21:25 local time (19:25 BST) that a 45-year-old man drove a Kia car along the city’s beach promenade, hitting several pedestrians before overturning on the lawn of the Charles Clore Garden.
They said a police officer at a nearby gas station heard the commotion and, after running to the scene, saw the driver of the car “attempt to reach for what appeared to be a rifle-like object that was with him” and then “neutralized him”. “.
The Israeli Ambulance Service said that apart from the alleged perpetrator, there were a total of eight victims of the attack, all of whom were tourists.
Of the injured, three suffered moderate injuries and four suffered only minor injuries, he said.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her “deep sorrow” over Parini’s death and called the attack “cowardly”.
Following the incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilized police and army reservists as part of efforts to combat terrorism.
Netanyahu has also visited the site of the shooting in the West Bank.
The attacks in the West Bank came hours after the Israeli military carried out airstrikes against targets belonging to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The military said the strikes were in response to a barrage of 34 rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel on Thursday, which it blamed on the group.
Tensions are rising after two nights of Israeli police raids on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, earlier this week.
The raids sparked violent clashes with Palestinians inside the mosque and sparked anger across the region.
The rockets fired from Lebanon formed the largest bombardment in 17 years.
Hamas did not confirm it had fired the rockets, but leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was visiting the Lebanese capital Beirut at the time, said Palestinians would not “sit idly” in the face of Israeli aggression.
