Israeli police mentioned Monday {that a} “highly effective” explosion the evening earlier than in Tel Aviv was a “terror assault” that wounded one individual and prompted heightened alert.
“This was a terror assault involving the explosion of a robust explosive,” the power mentioned in an announcement.
On Sunday authorities reported that the blast within the industrial hub of Tel Aviv had killed one individual, who Israeli media mentioned was the suspected assailant.
“Because of the explosion, a passerby was reasonably injured,” the police mentioned, including that authorities had ordered “a rise in alert ranges and in depth searches all through the larger Tel Aviv space”.
The blast late on Sunday got here shortly after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv to push for a ceasefire in Gaza after greater than 10 months of struggle, and as fears develop of a wider, regional conflagration.
Blinken, on his ninth regional tour for the reason that begin of the Israel-Hamas struggle, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and different prime Israeli officers.
AFP
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