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Sami Quadri

Tel Aviv: At least six injured in suspected car ramming and stabbing attack

At least six people have been injured after an alleged car-ramming and stabbing incident in Israel.

The suspected attacker has reportedly been “neutralised” after the assault in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

Israeli officials say the assailant was a Palestinian man from the West Bank.

Police spokesman Eli Levi told Kan public radio the incident was a deliberate attack and that a civilian shot and killed the driver at the scene.

The Hamas militant group praised the attack as "heroic and revenge for the military operation in Jenin".

Israeli media identified the attacker as Hasin Halila, a 23-year-old Palestinian man from a village near the West Bank city of Hebron.

It comes amid a period of tense violence in the region after Israeli forces killed 10 people during a raid on a refugee camp in the Palestinian city of Jenin.

Israel used drones to hit targets in a militant stronghold in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning.

Hundreds of Israeli troops were then deployed inside the refugee camp – a stronghold of Palestinian militants – at midday, pushing ahead with the largest operation in the area after more than a year of fighting.

Black smoke rose from the crowded streets of the camp while exchanges of fire rang out and the buzzing of drones was heard overhead. Military bulldozers ploughed through narrow streets, damaging buildings as they cleared the way for Israeli forces.

Jenin has experienced repeated Israeli military raids in the past year and local Palestinians have been linked to shooting attacks targeting Israelis.

The Palestinian health ministry said at least eight Palestinians were killed, while 50 people were wounded - ten critically.

Among the dead were young men and Palestinian youths, including a 16-year-old boy and two 17-year-olds.

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