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Five people have been shot dead by a Palestinian gunman on the outskirts of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, the third attack in a week.
The BBC writes that the attack took place in Bnei Brak, one of the most populated Jewish areas of the country.
Witnesses to the incident said the gunman was shot dead by Israeli police.
Footage from the scene in Bnei Brak showed the perpetrator dressed in black shooting at people with rifles on a road and killing the driver of a passing car.
Police said an officer who shot the gunman was among those killed.
The attacker has been identified as a 26-year-old Palestinian from a village near Yenin, north of the occupied West Bank, who had previously been imprisoned in Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held an urgent security meeting and his security cabinet will meet this Wednesday.
“Israel is facing a wave of deadly Arab terrorism. Security forces are operating. “We will fight terror with perseverance, stubbornness and an iron fist.”he said.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken also condemned the attack.
“This violence is unacceptable. Israelis, like all people around the world, must live in peace and without fear“, He said.
Security had already increased across Israel and the West Bank after two previous attacks.
The first was carried out by an Israeli Arab who had planned to join the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria and was serving a prison sentence for security crimes. The assailant killed a cyclist, then stabbed three people to death outside a shopping mall in the southern city of Beersheba.
Five days later, two other Israeli Arabs opened fire on a bus station in the northern city of Hadera, killing two police officers.
All three attackers were shot dead.
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