July 2023 Tel Aviv attack | |
Location: | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Date: | 4 July 2023 |
Partof: | the Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Target: | Israeli civilians |
Type: | Vehicle-ramming, stabbing |
Fatalities: | 1 perpetrator, 1 fetus |
Injuries: | 9 victims |
Perpetrator: | Hamas (claimed member) |
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.[1] [2] [3]
During 2023, Israel carried out incursions into Jenin, West Bank, in January, June and July.[1]
On 4 July 2023, a 20-year-old Palestinian man from As-Samu in the West Bank injured nine people in Tel Aviv, Israel.[1] He deliberately drove a pickup truck into pedestrians on Pinchas Rosen Street in the north of the city.[1] He then got out of the vehicle and stabbed one of them in the neck.[1] A motorcyclist shot the attacker dead.[1] Out of the injured, a seriously injured pregnant woman lost her unborn child.[4]
Hamas said he was a member of their Islamist Palestinian nationalist militant group.[1] They praised the attack as heroic, saying it was revenge for the July 2023 Jenin incursion, which began the previous day.[1]