A Palestinian man has driven a car into pedestrians in Tel Aviv and then began stabbing people, hurting at least eight.
It comes after Israel deployed thousands of troops into the occupied West Bank on Monday, as the two-day Palestinian death toll has risen to 10.
An armed civilian shot and killed the assailant, police chief Kobi Shabtai told reporters at the scene in Tel Aviv.
Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a refugee camp on Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety.
The large-scale raid of the Jenin camp, which began on Monday, is one of the most intense military operations in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades.
Rishi Sunak called on the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to show restraint on Tuesday afternoon, in a rare intervention.
The Prime Minister told the Commons Liaison Committee: “We support Israel’s right to self-defence, we have condemned the recent terrorist attacks.
“We would say that the protection of civilians must be prioritised in any military operation and would urge the IDF to demonstrate restraint in its operation and for all parties to avoid further escalation in both the West Bank and Gaza both now and in the days ahead.”
He also called on Israel “to adhere to principles of necessity and proportionality when defending their legitimate security interests”.
It bore hallmarks of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from his ultranationalist political allies for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four people.
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More than 140 Palestinians have been killed this year in the West Bank, part of more than a year-long spike in violence.
Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis have killed at least 26 people.
The Hamas militant group praised Tuesday’s attack in Tel Aviv as “heroic and revenge for the military operation in Jenin” and later claimed the driver was a member, though it was not immediately clear if the attacker was dispatched by the group or acted on his own.
The so-called Islamic Jihad, a militant group with a large presence in Jenin, also praised the assault.
Israeli’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, identified the attacker as a Palestinian from the West Bank with no prior security record.
Shabtai, the police chief, said several people connected to the man were arrested but did not provide details.
Earlier in the day, rubble littered the streets of Jenin and there were reports of damage to shops.
Columns of black smoke periodically punctuated the skyline over the camp, which along with an adjacent town of the same name has been a flashpoint since Israeli-Palestinian violence began escalating in spring 2022.
It was also a hotbed of Palestinian militant activity in the uprising in the early 2000s.
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Jenin mayor Nidal Al-Obeidi said that around 4,000 Palestinians had fled the Jenin refugee camp, finding accommodation in the homes of relatives and in shelters.
Residents said there was no water or electricity in the camp.
Across the West Bank, Palestinians observed a general strike to protest the Israeli raid.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said on Tuesday that the two-day death toll rose to 10, with two more deaths reported overnight.
The Israeli military has claimed all were militants but did not provide details.
During Tuesday’s operations, the military said it seized weapons and explosives and demolished tunnels beneath a mosque in the refugee camp.
Israeli media reported that the army had arrested at least 120 suspected Palestinian militants since Monday.
A spokesman for the Israeli military, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said on Monday that Israel had launched the operation because some 50 attacks over the past year had emanated from Jenin.
The Palestinian self-rule government in the West Bank and three Arab countries with normalised ties with Israel – Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – condemned Israel’s incursion, as did the 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Co-operation.
Israel says the raids are meant to crack down on Palestinians militants and thwart attacks.
The Palestinians say such violence is inevitable in the absence of any political process with Israel and increased West Bank settlement construction and violence by extremist settlers.
Israel says most of those killed have been militants but stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and people uninvolved in confrontations have also died.
Israel captured the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war.
The Palestinians seek those territories for their hoped-for independent state.
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