Italian visitor murdered in car-ramming incident in Israel

April 8, 2023



(cnn)

An Italian tourist was killed and seven people wounded in a car-ramming attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Friday evening. Israeli police said a vehicle was driven onto the bike path of the Tel Aviv boardwalk, hitting pedestrians before it overturned on a lawn. The man killed in the attack has been named as Alessandro Parini, a 35-year-old lawyer. Three of the seven people injured in the attack are still in hospital as of Saturday morning local time. The attack occurred after Israel struck Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza, amid days of tensions in the region following police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

The leader of the United Arab List and Knesset Member Mansour Abbas rejected any “use of violence against any citizen.” “Especially in these difficult times, it’s important for me to emphasize... this is not the way of the Arab community and Arab citizens in Israel,” Abbas said Saturday.

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