Palestinian shot dead after killing two in Tel Aviv bar attack
Raad Hazem, from the Jenin refugee camp, was found hiding near a mosque after Thursday night's terror incident
Michael Daventry is Jewish News’s foreign and broadcast editor
A Palestinian man who killed two people when he opened fire upon a bar on a crowded Tel Aviv street was shot dead by Israeli security forces in nearby Jaffa on Friday morning.
The attacker, named by Israeli media as 28-year-old Raad Hazem from the Jenin refugee camp, was found hiding near a mosque after an hours-long manhunt.
More than 10 people were injured .
Thursday night’s incident was the fourth terror attack in Israel in the past three weeks. 13 people have now been killed.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said the Gilboa/Jalamah checkpoint, a major crossing between the northern West Bank and Israel, would be closed indefinitely.
But on Friday Israeli security forces were allowing Palestinian women, children and older men to enter Jerusalem’s Old City for Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque.
Defence Minister Benny Gantz said they would “widen our actions against the wave of terror through offence, defence and intelligence. The price that we will extract from the attackers and those who send them will be heavy.”
Video shared on Thursday night showed terrified people running through the streets of Tel Aviv after gunfire was heard.
Police ordered people to remain inside and carried out a massive door-to-door search for the gunman.
Hazem was found nine hours later in Jaffa, close to Tel Aviv, and was killed after a gunfight with security forces.
Security sources told Haaretz that he was recorded sitting on a bench close to the bar for a 15-minute period before beginning his attack.
He then escaped the scene by hopping over a fence and running down a side street, where he tried unsuccessfully to shoot another man.
Officials said there was no criminal record on file for Hazem, but that he did not have a permit to enter Israel.
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