One tourist killed and seven wounded in car ramming attack in Tel Aviv

An Italian tourer has been killed and 7 different radical wounded successful a suspected car ramming onslaught adjacent a formation successful Tel Aviv, Israeli medics say.

Italy's overseas curate said Israel had identified the antheral killed arsenic Italian national Alessandro Parini.

Footage from the country showed an overturned car adjacent a promenade and an Israeli constabulary serviceman opening fire.

Local constabulary said the suspected attacker had been changeable dormant by officers.

The onslaught comes aft 2 British-Israeli sisters were killed and their parent injured successful a shooting successful the occupied West Bank earlier connected Friday.

Police successful Tel Aviv said astatine 21:25 section clip (19:25 BST) a 45-year-old antheral drove a Kia car on the city's beachside boardwalk, hitting respective pedestrians earlier overturning connected the tract of the Charles Clore Garden.

They said a constabulary serviceman astatine a adjacent petrol presumption heard the commotion and, aft moving to the scene, saw the operator of the car "trying to scope for what looked similar a rifle-like entity that was with him" and past "neutralized him".

The Israeli ambulance work said that, speech from the alleged perpetrator, determination were a full of 8 casualties from the onslaught and that each were tourists.

Of those wounded, 3 suffered mean injuries and 4 sustained lone airy injuries, it said.

Writing connected Twitter, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her "deep sorrow" astatine Mr Parini's decease and described the onslaught arsenic "cowardly".

Following the incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilised constabulary and service reservists arsenic portion of efforts to antagonistic terrorism, his bureau said.

Mr Netanyahu has besides visited the tract of the shooting successful the West Bank.

The attacks took spot hours aft the Israeli subject carried retired aerial strikes connected targets belonging to the Palestinian militant radical Hamas successful confederate Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

The subject said the strikes were a effect to a barrage of 34 rockets fired from Lebanon into bluish Israel connected Thursday, which it blamed connected the group.

Tensions are moving precocious pursuing 2 nights of Israeli constabulary raids astatine Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's 3rd holiest tract - earlier this week.

The raids triggered convulsive confrontations with Palestinians wrong the mosque and caused choler crossed the region.

The rockets fired from Lebanon formed the largest specified barrage successful 17 years.

Hamas did not corroborate it had fired the rockets, but person Ismail Haniyeh, who was visiting Lebanese superior Beirut astatine the time, said Palestinians would not "sit with their arms crossed" successful the look of Israeli aggression.