Conflict in the Middle East: operation in Jenin, the attack in Tel Aviv committed by a foreigner

►Continuation of the Israeli operation in Jenin

The city of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, was taken on Wednesday January 22 under heavy fire and explosions, on the second day of the Israeli military operation “Iron Wall”presented as “anti-terrorist”.

“The situation is very difficult. The occupying army bulldozed all the roads leading to the Jenin camp and the hospital”said the city’s governor, Kamal Abu Rub. “There are shots and explosions. A plane flies over the area »he added, reporting numerous arrests.

The latest report Tuesday evening showed ten dead and 35 injured, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

► The attack in Tel Aviv led by a foreigner

The man who was killed after injuring five people, one of whom was seriously injured, on Tuesday in Tel Aviv in a knife attack is a foreign national who arrived in Israel a few days earlier, Israeli authorities announced.

“According to the first elements of the investigation, a terrorist took out a knife and started stabbing people on Nahalat Binyamin Street, injuring four civilians” before hurting ” another “slightly, in a neighboring street. The attacker, “a foreign national aged 28”was then killed by “armed security guards” adds the press release, without specifying his nationality.

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said the attacker had aroused the suspicions of immigration officials when he arrived at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, but that the Shin Bet (internal security service) decided to allow him to enter Israel after interrogation.

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