2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming

Last updated
2023 Tel Aviv car-ramming
Location Charles Clore Park, Tel Aviv, Israel
Date7 April 2023 (2023-04-07)
Attack type
Vehicle-ramming attack (suspected)
Deaths2 (including the driver)
Injured6

On 7 April 2023, a car-ramming incident suspected to be an intentional attack occurred off Kaufmann Street in Tel Aviv, Israel, killed a person and injured six others. [1]

Contents

Incident

Alessandro Parini, an Italian lawyer who died after being struck by the vehicle Alessandro-Parini.jpg
Alessandro Parini, an Italian lawyer who died after being struck by the vehicle

The suspected car-ramming attack took place near Kaufmann Street. The driver's car veered onto an occupied sidewalk and continued for 150 meters before skidding and overturning on a lawn of the Charles Clore Park. [2] [3]

The car struck seven people, killing Alessandro Parini, a 35-year-old lawyer visiting from Rome, [1] [4] and injuring two other Italians and four British citizens. [1] The driver was then fatally shot by a police officer. [1] [5]

The police are investigating whether this was a terror attack, while the Shin Bet security service are also involved in the investigation. [3]

The driver was Yusef Abu Jaber, a 45-year-old Arab Israeli from Kafr Qassem and janitor at a local school. [1] [5] His brother said it was a car accident, not an attack, and that the family intends to ask for an investigation. [6] [7]

Aftermath

The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella harshly condemned what he called a terrorist attack carried out against Italian citizens. The President of Israel Isaac Herzog expressed his condolences to the President of the Italian Republic. [5]

Related Research Articles

Note: This compilation includes only those attacks that resulted in casualties. Attacks which did not kill or wound are not included.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mike's Place suicide bombing</span> 2003 terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Israel

The Mike's Place suicide bombing was a Palestinian suicide attack, perpetrated by Hamas and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades affiliated British nationals, at Mike's Place, a bar in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 30, 2003, killing three civilians and wounding 50.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheba Medical Center</span> Hospital in Tel Aviv District, Israel

Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, also known as Tel HaShomer Hospital, is the largest hospital in Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan in the Tel HaShomer neighborhood, Israel. In 2020, Newsweek ranked it as the 9th-best hospital in the world, in 2021, the 10th best, and in 2024 the 9th best; in all three cases scoring the highest for an Asian or Israeli hospital.

This page is a partial listing of incidents of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2005.

The 2nd Rosh Ha'ir restaurant bombing was a suicide bombing on 17 April 2006 at Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel. Eleven Israeli civilians were killed in the attack and 70 were injured, in the deadliest attack in Israel in nearly two years.

On July 2, 2008, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem identified as Hussam Taysir Duwait attacked several cars on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in a vehicle-ramming attack using a front-end loader, killing three civilians and wounding at least thirty other pedestrians, before being shot to death. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said that an inquiry indicated the attacker had been acting alone. A motive for the attack could not immediately be determined, but police at the scene referred to the incident as a terrorist attack. Three copycat attacks have occurred since then.

The 2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack was a combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack carried out at 01:40 (GMT+2) 29 August 2011 in which a Palestinian attacker stole an Israeli taxi cab and rammed it into a police checkpoint guarding the popular nightclub, Haoman 17, in Tel Aviv which was filled with 2,000 Israeli teenagers. After crashing into the checkpoint, the attacker jumped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people. Four civilians, four police officers, and also perpetrator were injured in the attack. The perpetrator was living illegally in Israel at the time of the attack.

A terrorist ramming attack occurred on 4 August 2014, when a man drove an excavator type of tractor out of a construction site, injuring several pedestrians and killing one man before ramming the tractor into a public bus, overturning the bus and then hitting it repeatedly. The terrorist was shot dead at the scene by a police officer while still seated at the wheel of the tractor and continuing to attack the bus by swinging the arm of the excavator against it.

On 22 October 2014, a Palestinian rammed his car into a crowd of people waiting at the Ammunition Hill light rail station in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. The attack killed a three-month-old girl and a 22-year-old Ecuadorian potential convert to Judaism, and injured seven others. Police shot the driver of the vehicle as he fled the scene and he later died of his wounds.

Sergeant Almog Shiloni of the Israel Defense Forces was killed on 10 November 2014 after he was stabbed multiple times at Tel Aviv HaHagana Railway Station. He died in hospital from his wounds. Shiloni was off-duty, but in uniform and armed at the time.

During the morning rush hour of 21 January 2015, a Palestinian man from Tulkarm, West Bank boarded a bus in Tel Aviv and stabbed multiple people in a terrorist attack. After the bus he boarded had driven about 400 meters, the Palestinian attacked the driver, who fought back, before turning to other passengers and attacking them. The bus stopped, with the passengers fleeing, and the Palestinian attacked others too. Israeli police shot the terrorist in the foot and arrested him.

On 1 January 2016, an Israeli Arab gunman opened fire on several businesses on Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv, Israel, killing two and injuring seven civilians. He also killed a taxi driver while fleeing. The attack was believed to be inspired by ISIS. The event took place in parallel with the 2015-16 Palestinian unrest.

On 8 March 2016, a 21-year-old Palestinian man from Qalqilya killed an American tourist and wounded ten civilians in a stabbing spree in Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel. The attacker was shot dead by the police after a chase along the beach promenade.

On 16 June 2017, two Palestinian men opened fire on Israeli police officers in the Old City of Jerusalem, injuring four of them. An additional attacker stabbed a policewoman, she was critically injured, and later died in hospital. All three attackers were shot and killed by the Israeli authorities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2011 Tel Aviv truck attack</span> 2011 terror attack in Tel Aviv, Israel

On the morning of 15 May 2011, a terrorist attack was carried out in Tel Aviv. A truck was deliberately rammed into cars and pedestrians at busy "Bar-Lev" street in the south of the city, killing one man and injuring 17 others. The truck driver was identified as Aslam Ibrahim Isa, a 22-year-old Arab-Israeli man from the city of Kfar Kassem. Immediately after the attack he was arrested and taken to questioning by police.

The following is a list of events during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023.

On 4 July 2023, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank carried out a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas later claimed that the individual was a member and the attack in response to the July 2023 Jenin incursion.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Fabian, Emanuel (7 April 2023). "Italian tourist dead, 7 others hurt in car-ramming on Tel Aviv promenade". The Times of Israel. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  2. Knell, Yolande; Cooney, Christy (2023-04-07). "Tel Aviv car-ramming kills Italian tourist and injures 7". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-04-22. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  3. 1 2 Efrati, Ido; Breiner, Josh; Shimoni, Ran; Yahia, Deiaa Haj; Samuels, Ben (7 April 2023). "One Tourist Killed, Seven Wounded in Tel Aviv Terror Attack, Assailant Shot Dead". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2023-04-09. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  4. "Italian tourist Alessandro Parini is Tel Aviv terror attack victim". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 2023-04-21. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
  5. 1 2 3 "Ucciso turista italiano a Tel Aviv, i genitori: 'Era un ragazzo semplice'". ansa.it. 7 April 2023. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
  6. Breiner, Josh (8 April 2023). "Tel Aviv Ramming That Killed One and Injured Seven Was Terror Attack Not Accident, Israeli Police Say". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  7. "Staff, students in shock after Tel Aviv car-rammer revealed as ex-janitor at school". The Times of Israel. 8 April 2023. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.