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.
Background During 2023, Israel carried out incursions into Jenin, West Bank, in January, June and July.
Attack On 4 July 2023, a 20-year-old Palestinian man from As-Samu in the West Bank injured nine people in Tel Aviv, Israel. He deliberately drove a pickup truck into pedestrians on Pinchas Rosen Street in the north of the city. He then got out of the vehicle and stabbed one of them in the neck. A motorcyclist shot the attacker dead. Out of the injured, a seriously injured pregnant woman lost her unborn child.
Reaction Hamas said he was a member of their Islamist Palestinian nationalist militant group. They praised the attack as heroic, saying it was revenge for the July 2023 Jenin incursion, which began the previous day.
See also Tel Aviv attack Timeline of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2023
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