Three British tourists injured in car crash in Tel Aviv

The attacker crashed into tourists walking along the bike path. Credit: NIR ELIAS/REUTERS

Three British tourists were among seven people injured in a car ramming in Tel Aviv on Friday that also killed an Italian.

Despite calls for restraint, violence erupted after Israeli police clashed with Palestinians Wednesday at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque, with Israel shelling Gaza and Lebanon following rocket attacks by Palestinian militants.

The latest surge in tension occurred during a Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

>On Friday, two British-Israeli sisters, aged 16 and 20, were killed and their mother seriously injured in a shootout in the occupied West Bank.

< p>Israel's army has announced that it has launched a manhunt for criminals.

Later, in downtown Tel Aviv, one person was killed and seven others were injured when a car struck people walking along a cycle path along the waterfront and overturned, Israeli rescue services and police said.

Forensic experts at the scene of the Tel Aviv attack Photo: Ilya Efimovich/Avalon

The Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv reported that it had received three wounded British and one wounded Italian.< /p>

"The victims were all tourists" This was reported by the Magen David Adom emergency service.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni identified the deceased as 36-year-old Alessandro Parini.

A police spokesman said that «the terrorist was neutralized, it was a terrorist attack against civilians, ramming a car.»

Shortly thereafter, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Israeli police to mobilize all reserve units of the border police and ordered the Israel Defense Forces to mobilize additional forces,” his office said in a statement.

Oded Revivi, mayor of the illegal settlement of Efrat, confirmed that two sisters, aged 16 and 20, had died in a shooting in the West Bank. , and that the injured woman was their mother.

A British diplomat later confirmed that the two also held British passports, calling on «all parties…to defuse tensions»; .

Friday's attacks came after Israel launched air strikes and artillery fire before dawn in response to rocket fire from Gaza and Lebanon.