Israeli police mentioned Monday {that a} “powerful” explosion the night time earlier than in Tel Aviv was a “terror attack” that wounded one individual and prompted heightened alert.
“This was a terror attack involving the explosion of a powerful explosive,” the drive mentioned in an announcement.
On Sunday authorities reported that the blast within the business hub of Tel Aviv had killed one individual, who Israeli media mentioned was the suspected assailant.
“As a result of the explosion, a passerby was moderately injured,” the police mentioned, including that authorities had ordered “an increase in alert levels and extensive searches throughout the greater Tel Aviv area”.
The blast late on Sunday got here shortly after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv to push for a ceasefire in Gaza after greater than 10 months of warfare, and as fears develop of a wider, regional conflagration.
Blinken, on his ninth regional tour because the begin of the Israel-Hamas warfare, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different high Israeli officers.
AFP
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