After Israeli police search at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque this week, the attacks heightened Israeli-Palestinian tensions.

Israel reacted to a barrage of missiles by attacking Hamas sites in Gaza and southern Lebanon, but the violence slowed on Friday.

Yet, the two attacks showed how volatile the situation remained after several nights of turmoil that alarmed the globe and called for calm.

In the latest incident, a vehicle hit a group along a Tel Aviv promenade cycling and pedestrian route. Police say a nearby cop shot and killed the driver when he pulled a revolver.

An Israeli security source identified the attacker as a Kafr Qassem Arab.

After the incident, Reuters footage showed a white automobile upside down on park grass. Police surrounded emergency personnel.

Magen David Adom said that all victims were international visitors. Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated that 1 Italian was killed and others may have been wounded.

Two Israeli sisters, aged 20 and 16, with shared British citizenship, were slain and their mother wounded in a gun attack on their automobile near the Jordan Valley Jewish town of Hamra on Friday.

“Our adversaries are putting us to the test again,” Netanyahu said after touring the bombing scene with Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.

Netanyahu ordered border police reserves and extra military forces to stop the attacks while soldiers searched for the shooter.

“The targeting of innocent people of any nationality is reprehensible,” the State Department said of the strikes.
Hamas, the Islamic party that governs the blockaded Gaza Strip, applauded Friday’s bombings and connected them to Al-Aqsa shrine tensions. No one claimed credit.
Police reported a peaceful Friday prayer despite some stone-throwing.

Israeli police have entered the mosque, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been worshipping throughout Ramadan, twice this week to expel those they alleged had locked themselves to cause violence.

Officers assaulting worshipers who opposed them alarmed even Israel’s supporters and drew Arab censure.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, sacred to Muslims and Jews, has long been a flashpoint, particularly over Jewish visitors ignoring a complex mosque prohibition on non-Muslim prayer.

Two thousand twenty-one clashes sparked a 10-day Israel-Hamas conflict. As the break in fighting prolonged on Friday, neither side looked eager to resume fighting.

Israeli army spokesman: “Nobody wants an escalation right now.” “Silence will be responded with quiet, at least in the coming hours.”

A Palestinian militant group spokesman told Reuters they would maintain quiet if Israel did the same, having “reached its point.” Qatari officials stated they were aiding international de-escalation efforts.

Military incursions, settler violence, and Palestinian assaults for months have plagued the West Bank.

At least 18 Israelis and tourists have been slain in Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank since January. In addition, Israeli soldiers murdered about 80 Palestinians, mostly militants but some civilians, in the same period.

After the nighttime Gaza attacks, only taxis and emergency cars were on the streets. In addition, aIn addition, a children’s hospital and residences in Gaza City’s Tufah neighborhood were destroyed.

Taxi driver Muhanad Abu Neama, 23, claimed his family narrowly survived Israeli air strikes that damaged his car and filled his house with mud and rubble.

“Dust blanketed my sisters’ mattresses and I dragged them out one by one,” he claimed.

Palestinian ambitions of an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza with East Jerusalem as its capital have diminished with the international peace process. This is because Israel occupied East Jerusalem in the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict.

Israel’s new hard-right administration wants to increase West Bank Israeli settlements and rejects a Palestinian state. Hamas rejects Israeli coexistence.