 by a gunman in the central street of Nakhlat bin Yameen, local security personnel, returned fire and neutralized the attacker, the victim, taken to hospital in critical condition as emergency crews are conducted CPR there at the scene. Police Commissioner Kobe Shoftai is making his way to the scene, perhaps already arriving there. This attack taking place as tens of thousands of people beginning together for the weekly mass protests against the judicial reform not far away from there. So for all the latest updates from this suspected terror attack, let's cross now live to Jonathan Regev, I-24 News' senior defense correspondent, Jonathan, we're seeing now live images from the scene there. Again, at the very heart of Tel Aviv, large forces, security forces there, what do we know? What exactly happened, Jonathan? Yes, a very essential location, as you're mentioning, what we know is that a gunman, a terrorist, opened fire, injuring, severely injuring, even critically injuring, one person, a 40-year-old who's been taken to hospital, as far as we understand, some security officers there in the area returned fire and neutralized the terrorist before. Getting major damage apart from that one person injured before the terrorist was able to continue with his actions. These are the initial reports that we're hearing this attack taking place roughly 40 minutes ago. Although there's no official confirmation, everything is indicating that we are speaking of a terror attack here, something with the nationalistic motives, not some kind of a criminal attack, but a terror attack. These are, again, there's no concrete confirmation and no official confirmation at this time, but the notion that seems to be the understanding that this is a terror attack happening at the heart of Tel Aviv and the concerning issue is that we're seeing more and more terror attacks that involve shooting. We spoke a lot of waves that included car ramming and stabbing attacks, which are concerning by themselves. Now we're speaking of shooting attacks, which, of course, are much more lethal due to the weapon that is being used. This seems to be the case this evening also in Tel Aviv. This is what we're understanding happened at this very central location in Tel Aviv to summarize one person critically injured taken to hospital. Jonathan, stay with us. We're listening now to the police commissioner from the scene in Tel Aviv. Local municipal patrol unit noticed a suspect around about 27-year-old that did not respond to their calls. The patrolling team stopped him. The attacker took out a gun and began shooting at them. In return, the patrolling unit neutralized him by shooting as well. At the moment, one of the patrol crew members, he is the victim, a 40-year-old man. He is critically injured. The attacker, most likely from the Janine area, carried a letter in which he clarified that he arrived here to sacrifice himself. We are first looking for any accomplices in the area as for the mass protest in Kaplan, not far from here. It will be taking place. People can arrive there without fear. We are reinforcing our teams underground. Mr. Commissioner, what do we know about the attacker, about the terrorist? We don't have details on that yet. These are initial investigations, initial questions that are being investigated. Do we know the motivation? Is it related to the events overnight near Ramallah? I cannot comment on that. The only thing I can say is that he arrived here in the letter. He clarifies he arrived here wanting to become a Shahid to sacrifice himself. We can say that he is a resident of Janine in the northern part of the West Bank. Mr. Commissioner, even when there are so many police forces underground, the fact that a terrorist is arriving at the very heart of the city, what does that mean about the police work on the ground? Well, first we want to send our best wishes to the men who are injured. And we want to say well done to the municipal patrolling unit for its alertness. The protest area is not far from here, and we have a lot of forces there. And we also have forces in the surrounding areas. But Mr. Commissioner, this is a special, what will happen from this point onwards, Mr. Commissioner? Well, first of all, the fact that the patrolling unit approach, the suspect, is indicating that we're doing things right, that the forces on the ground are doing their work properly. The attacker was spotted in real time. This encounter was between the patrolling unit and the attacker and not with civilians. Well, last overnight, the killing of the 19-year-old Palestinian Nero Mala, is it impacting the forces in this central area? Well, what you're seeing now is part of the police readiness or reaction to the aftermath of the events. There are many forces that are securing or on the ground in relation to the protest and many others in relation to other security challenges. As I said earlier, we cannot be anywhere, everywhere, at every point in time. We have thousands of officers spread across the country. It is never enough. And here we urge the public to stay on high alert, stay vigilant, record back to us, and we'll arrive at the scene as quickly as possible. Yes, well, that was a paraphrasing of the statements of the police commissioner live at the scene at the very heart of Tel Aviv at the central Nakhalat-Binyamin-Montefiori streets, again, not far away from the Kaplan intersection, where tens of thousands of people are gathering as we speak in protest for the 31st, 31 week in a row, in protest of the judicial reforms there. This is what we've just heard from the police commissioner, Kobishabtai, at the scene there that police cannot be everywhere, anywhere, at every single point in time. But he is, of course, applauding the local security personnel, this patrolling unit that identified the suspect. And this encounter was between the patrolling unit and the attacker, a 40-year-old member of this patrolling unit is currently being treated in hospital. Jonathan Reggae of I-24 News, a senior defense correspondent, listening with us to the police commissioner. What are your main takeaways from his statements? So now, I mean, we can now officially describe this as a nationalistic terror attack, no doubt about that. And it doesn't necessarily have to be connected to what happened yesterday in the area of Ramallah, where a 19-year-old Palestinian was killed. It may be connected, it may not. We have to say that these attacks, I mean, that the Palestinian terrorists do not wait for something to happen in the West Bank to try and plan their own kind of attacks. So it may be connected, it may not be connected. We clearly know that this is a nationalistic attack, a terror attack. And we heard from the police commissioner that one of their, it is one of their personnel, a security personnel, that spotted the terrorists and called on him to stop. He's one of the injured ones. I think without even going further into investigation, we can say that this security man probably prevented a terror attack that is much bigger. We have here a terrorist armed with a shooting gun, ready to come in here to kill Israelis as the letter that he carried mentioned. And the security personnel, the security people spotting him, calling him to stop and paying with getting the bullet, at least one of them prevented something that could have been far, far worse. Right. And Jonathan, more from the police commissioner confirming that it's not just an attack of nationalistic motivation here, but that the perpetrator, the terrorist coming from the Janine area in the northern part of the West Bank. The exact location that was dubbed for so long a terror hotbed where the recent IDF operation just wrapped up a short weeks ago. What do you make of it? Murder. We have to understand that the area of Janine is clearly a hotbed for terrorism and it's not by chance that we see IDF forces operating there again and again and again, terrorists from Janine trying to execute attacks in the West Bank, whether in Israel itself, some of the attacks that we saw in Tel Aviv, shooting attacks in the past year and a half, they originated from the area of Janine, clearly a hotbed for terrorism. And we heard many Israeli security officials saying that there was a big operation in Janine a month ago, it was probably not the last one. Right. And it is safe to assume, Jonathan, that at least part of the investigation will be to examine how this terrorist arrived from Janine in the northern West Bank to the very heart of Tel Aviv without being stopped on his way there. Jonathan, before we let you go, we do know that, again, it is all taking place while this mass protest is set to begin. But meanwhile Hamas is welcoming or hailing this attack, not claiming responsibility, as it did several times beforehand, but hailing the attack, something that can be seen as part of Hamas' attempts to gain more momentum and more clout among Palestinians in the West Bank. Absolutely. It's almost an automatic response from Hamas. We can also expect the same from the Islamic Jihad. I think for the moment, they're not aware of the identity of all the terrorists yet. Hamas will claim that he has maybe links to Hamas, that maybe this is motivated by what is happening in the last few days or so. Hamas is automatically taking responsibility on the terrorists, let's call it this way. Even if whether he had links to Hamas or not, it doesn't matter to them. They claim responsibility on the terrorists, let's call it this way, and almost an automatic response from this terror organization. I-24 News, Senior Defense Correspondent Jonathan Reggiv, thank you for this. We'll be back with Jonathan later on in the broadcast for our latest details from this scene that again you're seeing live images throughout our broadcast from the very heart of Tel Aviv, where this terror attack took place an hour ago. Let's cross now live to Professor Kobe Michail, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. Thank you very much, Professor Michail, for joining us. So we've just heard Police Commissioner Kobe Shoptai talking about the identity of the terrorist, of the perpetrator, a 27-year-old from the area of Janine, carrying with him a letter clearly stating that he arrived there with the clear purpose of becoming a Shahid, of committing this terror attack. What do you make of it, Professor Michail? Good evening. I would say that I have three general comments in this regard. The first one is that I think that what we are witnessing is a sort of a version of a suicide terrorism because such people, when they come to commit such a terror attack, they know that they will not go back home alive. So in this regard, this is a version, an evolution of a suicide terrorism. The second comment is the idea that such a young fellow has a gun with him. And we know that a gun or a pistol costs some dozens of thousands of shekels. And I assume that somebody providing with this gun, which means that Hamas or the Prasin Islamic Jihad or any other organization is involved in this terror attack in this way or another. And the third comment that I would like to refer to is the idea that this is another event in a terror campaign that we are in since March 22. And with all the 100% of efforts that the Israeli security apparatuses do, there is no 100% of success. And although some hundreds of such terror attacks were prevented in the last months from time to time, they are succeeding in committing such terror attacks. And let's dive further into that point, Professor Mikhail, because as you've mentioned, we are talking about perpetrator arriving at the scene with a gun. And we are often talking about the intelligence struggle of intercepting what is happening between the two years of an individual, right? You cannot intercept any or every lone wolf attack. But here you are talking about guns, about the live munitions that are being distributed across the West Bank in areas that are dubbed to begin with as terror hotbeds. Can anything be done to prevent or minimize the amount of live munition that is circulating in the West Bank? Yes, and actually it's already done. I mean, just two or three days ago, we were informed about a huge smuggling that was prevented in the Jordan Valley of weapons. And we know that the Iranians and Hezbollah are doing huge efforts in order to smuggle weapons from Jordan through the Jordan Valley to Jannin area. And we know that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic jihad are making tremendous efforts in order to provide the Palestinian youngsters with weapons to guide them and to send them to terrorize Israelis in the West Bank and inside the state of Israel. And I think that what we saw in the last operation of Home and Garden is another trial of the Israeli security apparatus to confiscate or to tackle these infrastructures. But this is going to be a very long journey. I mean, it's not something that we can finalize in one phase or one step and it will take time. And Professor Mikhail Hamas, as mentioned earlier in the broadcast, is hailing this terror attack, the terror attacker, but is not claiming responsibility over this attack. Is it part of Hamas's attempts to, quote, unquote, guzzanize the West Bank? I think that this is a sort of behavior code of Hamas that, on the one hand, don't take an official responsibility, but on the other hand, they glorify these terror attacks and they provide guns and they provide money to people in order to commit such terror attacks. And this is part of their efforts to build their capacities in the West Bank. And they see in front of their eyes the collapse of the Palestinian authority. Actually, they do efforts in order to undermine the stability of the Palestinian authority. And I think that this is the reason that there will be no reconciliation between the Palestinian authority and Hamas and they will continue in their efforts in order to undermine stability and to gain control over the entire Palestinian territories. And Hamas officials in the West Bank are connecting what we've seen overnight near Ramallah, near the Borca village, those violent, those fatal scuffles between settlers and Palestinians in which 19-year-old Palestinian was killed. They're connecting the event last night to today's event. How do you see it? I'm not sure that there is any direct connection between the event yesterday in Borca village and the event today in Tel Aviv, but it is pretty understood that they will try to make the connections because the event yesterday in Borca was a very severe event. In my eyes, it is a terror event from the Jewish side, from the Israeli side. But generally speaking, the Palestinians do not need too many excuses in order to justify terror attacks against Israelis and Jews, be it in the West Bank or in Tel Aviv. Yes, Professor Kobe Micheal is in your research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies. Thank you very much for your insights and your analysis. We appreciate it. Thank you, Professor Kobe Micheal. Let's cross now to I-24 News, Senior Political Correspondent Batia Leventhal. Batia, as we've mentioned numerous times, this terror attack taking place at the very same time where a few blocks away, tens of thousands of Israelis are gathering for the weekly mass protests, the anti-judicial reform protests, and police commissioner Kobe Shapta is saying, feel free to arrive there. Don't be alerted. Don't be alarmed. The protest will carry on as is. Ellie, good evening. Good to be with you. This is just the very essence of Israeli mentality that despite terror, whatever is going on in the country seems to continue, and that's exactly what's happening tonight as we're seeing 31 weeks of these anti-judicial overhaul protests in Tel Aviv. You mentioned that this happened just a few blocks away from where people are massing, and you have to remember that Tel Aviv is a very, very small city, and I think that it's going to be interesting to see whether or not this was actually a coincidence. We know that at the moment it could be a lone wolf attack, but then again, why he chose this specific area, which is literally one street away from Rothschild Boulevard, where they normally congregate and then walk through from there either towards the northern part of Tel Aviv towards Kaplan, where these protests end up congregating and mass, and often have clashes with the police. So again, there's a lot of things happening now that sort of piecing the theme together. What we do know is that it's no coincidence that the protests will likely go ahead because of the fact that terror does not stop Israelis in its tracks, and in fact so many people even at these protests are very much stuck to the fact that they believe that it's a hard-line government, namely the National Security Ministry, which I'm being clear, and some of Benjamin Netanyahu's Prime Minister's hard-line and far-right members of his government that are enticing more and more terror attacks with their rhetoric, with their narrative. And so again, they are going to be en masse in the streets. What's very difficult to understand, however, at least from the Palestinian perspective, is how this is going to be portrayed in international media. Tel Aviv is largely a city of more center to left-wing voters, and to attack people in a city that really are just innocent bystanders, going about their Saturday afternoon, early Saturday evening rituals, events, going out for copies, whatever it is. It's very different to a terror attack in the heart of Jerusalem, which is still considered a dispute of security. Right, and even regardless of those mass protests, this is a busy area on the weekends, and one can only assume, Batya, what would have happened unless this local patrolling unit would have stopped this perpetrator and neutralized him after he began shooting at them, whether he was on his way to the mass gathering, again, a block away from the central, Ronchal de Boulevard. So Batya, the protest is the beginning, and the protest movement, the protest leaders, as well as the police commissioner are saying it will go as planned, but are we expecting any impact on the attendance this week around? Well, Ellie, it's an interesting question, and I'm sure that it has made that same impact on people that are attending this march as to whether or not this is in fact the lone wolf attack, or whether there could be accomplices nearby that may want to carry out something similar. But again, we are talking about the fact that this is not the first time in the last 31 weeks that we have seen Kara Elbais, it hasn't necessarily happened in Tel Aviv, where the protests are taking place in such close proximity, but no doubt we are going to be seeing more of a head-to-head police presence in the area, as you mentioned, these were people that were already on their way to corner off streets in light of the protests, so the fact that there is police presence there could also count on the fact that people perhaps feel safer to be there, or at least protected, knowing that there's a fortune of policemen, knowing that there's a fortune of security in the area, I don't think it's going to have as strong of an impact as possibly keeping people away. But then again, these terror attacks were not designed in a sense to stop the protests, they were designed in order to make it clear points on what's happened in the last couple of weeks in terms of what they considered the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque, which is in Samarabing, very the National Security Ministry, and also multiple religious people being able to go up on that very flashpoint area in Jerusalem, but also what's been happening for the last couple of weeks as well in the West Bank, with near nightly raids by the IDF in order to return terror from these areas, especially now that it's being possibly reported that the terrorists could have come from Janine, which is a major flashpoint with regards to the situation happening in the West Bank. Right, the exact location where this targeted IDF counterterrorism campaign that took place a short weeks ago. I-24 News political affairs correspondent, Bachi 11th, thank you very much for this. 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Welcome to the Sub-Breaking News Edition here on I-24 News. A terror attack at the very heart of Tel Aviv. A short hour ago, a 40-year-old man, a member of a local patrolling unit was fatally wounded by a Palestinian gunman in the central street of Nakhalat, Benjamin. Again, at the very heart of Tel Aviv, you're seeing live images on your screen from the scene there. It was this local security personnel unit that approached this man who looked suspicious to them when he refused to stop. He then pulled out a gun, began shooting at them, and they, in return, shot back and neutralized him. A short while ago, the chief police commissioner, Kobe Shabtai, arrived at the scene and updated that the perpetrator is a 27-year-old man from the West Bank, northern West Bank city of Janine. The very same location that was defined terror hotbed for a long while and only short weeks ago, the IDF concluded a counterterrorism campaign there. The police commissioner also saying that this 27-year-old Palestinian terrorist was arriving at the scene with a letter clearly stating his aims to become a Shahid to carry out a terror attack there. All of this taking place at the very same time. There's only a block away, tens of thousands of people began gathering for the weekly mass protest against the pending judicial reform here in Israel. All of this again at the very heart of Tel Aviv. Let's cross now live to our 24 news as senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regiv bringing us all the latest details on what is currently happening. Jonathan, what more do we know to say about what happened a bit over an hour ago? I think by now we can clearly say that these two security officials they prevented a very big terror attack in Tel Aviv. They spotted this terrorist before he carried out the attack. They realized there's something suspicious about him and they approached him. That is when the terrorist was able to surprise them and shoot one of them injuring him but the other one able to neutralize that terrorist. So clearly these two security officials preventing a terror attack much bigger this evening in Tel Aviv and we should not be surprised that we're hearing praises from the Palestinian terror organizations Hamath and Islamic Jihad calling this a response to the crimes of the Zionist regime as they put it in the West Bank. This is what Hamath and Islamic Jihad are saying defining this already as a response to what they claim are the crimes of the Zionist regime. This is Hamath and Islamic Jihad are putting it. We don't know yet the identity of this terrorist. Neither does Hamath and Islamic Jihad but they are very quick to pray that whether this terrorist came from the ranks or not. Yeah well Jonathan before we circle back to the Palestinian side of the divide if you will, the police commissioner Kobishapta arriving at the scene this past hour and talking about police presence there vowing that the reinforcement of officers on the ground is sufficient enough to prevent any such further attacks. Again we need to mention once again a block away the mass protests are beginning to gain traction at this hour. What can you tell us? Well the Israeli police cannot put a man on every corner and having said that they cannot put a man on every corner. Once again it is these two security officials that prevented a very big terror attack in Tel Aviv. One of them was unfortunately injured because the terrorists quickly realizing what was happening pulled this gun and was able to shoot one of them but police even with the very great force that they have over at Kaplan Street which is a very close location to the attack even with that they were still able to have people on the ground who spotted this terrorist and were able to stop him before he was able to carry out a major attack and police of course are widely deployed all over the country but they cannot be everywhere all the time and this is the situation if we go back to a previous attack this week in Mahle I mean for example the terrorist there was stopped and shot by people on the side by a security official who was on vacation but still had his gun and both armed civilians and security personnel are in charge of stopping such terror attacks and we saw this example this evening in Tel Aviv Jonathan before we let you go you mentioned earlier in the broadcast the issue of live ammunition that is circulating in the West Bank and tonight we are seeing unlike the quote-unquote usual lone wolf attacks they usually carried out either as a car ramming attack or a stabbing attack now we're seeing it another shooting attack what does it tell us about the readiness so to speak on the Palestinian side it's a very concerning issue lone wolf attacks are a concerning issue themselves but they don't demand any kind of preparedness you take a knife from the kitchen if you have a car you take your car and you go out and run over the first Israeli that you see or stab the first Israeli that you see if we're speaking of a gun then you have to know how to use it you have to get it somehow meaning there's a little more planning behind it and of course the damage that can happen is far, far greater of course a gun is a completely different issue than a knife and both the attack that we saw earlier this week in Ma'aleh Dumiim and the attack this evening in Tel Aviv could have had far, far, far worse results if it wasn't for the very fast response of personnel on the ground I-24 News's senior defense correspondent Jonathan Reggiv bringing us all the details on this terror attack the very heart of Tel Aviv about an hour, a bit over an hour ago I thank you very much for this Jonathan Reggiv we now want to move to another Jonathan Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve Jonathan Conriquez, former international spokesperson for the IDF Lieutenant Colonel Conriquez before we begin talking let's take a listen to part of what we've just heard from Police Commissioner Kobi Shaptay a short moment ago at the scene there in Tel Aviv the attacker took out a gun and began shooting at them in return the patrolling unit neutralized him by shooting as well at the moment one of the patrol crew members is he is the victim 40 year old man he's critically injured the attacker most likely from the Janine area carried a letter in which he clarified that he arrived here to sacrifice himself we are first looking for any accomplices in the area Lieutenant Colonel in the reserve Jonathan Conriquez you're listening with us to what we've just heard from Police Commissioner Kobi Shaptay if lone wolf attacks are usually defined as sporadic and spontaneous here we're talking about a man aimed with not just a clear intention but with a gun what do you make of it? we're having some technical difficulties to hear Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conriquez but he will be joining us yes we can hear you now Lieutenant Colonel Conriquez please sorry so I think that categorically speaking the phrase lone wolf attacker is something of a relic of the past I think it is no longer relevant because for any one perpetrator to be able to launch an attack there usually is an ecosystem of hatred and incitement that builds that person's capabilities even in the case of a simple car ramming or stabbing attack and of course in the case of the use of firearms so I would say that you know what police and the IDF will have to investigate where this person came from how he got his hands on a rifle but unfortunately we see and understand that it is becoming increasingly easy for Palestinian perpetrators in Judea and Samaria to get their hands on weapons in order to kill Israelis an ecosystem of hatred and incitement Lieutenant Colonel and the reserve of Jonathan Conriquez you're staying with us two minutes and we're back Israeli business and technology Israel Business Beat Sundays and Wednesdays 9.30 p.m. GMT our best formulation is based on environmental software it can reflect 98.1% of sunlight so that's really high look into security, intelligence and strategic affairs our team brings the latest on the major international conflicts analysis of the major security issues right here in the Middle East around the globe, Saturdays only on I-24 News Made For Me, a unique concept in Israel custom made men's fashion to your measurements Made For Me, designer of all your events schedule your appointment at www.madeforme.co.il Made For Me, official dresser of I-24 News Good evening ladies and gentlemen Welcome back to the special breaking news edition here on I-24 News a terror attack at a very heart of Tel Aviv a bit over an hour ago a Palestinian perpetrator arriving there at the heart of Tel Aviv fatally injuring critically injuring 40 year old security security personnel there on the ground member of a patrolling unit who stopped this suspicious man for questioning who then pulled out a gun began shooting at them and they in return shot back and neutralize him we now see Palestinian reports indicating the identity of this Palestinian terrorist 27 year old Kamel Abu Bakar police commissioner Kobishabtai indicating earlier life from the scene that he's arriving or rather arrived at the terror attack scene from the northern West Bank city of Janine long dubbed a terror hotbed and he's arriving there with a letter clearly stating his intentions to become a Shahid to carry out a terror attack Bakar with Lieutenant Colonel and the Reserves of Jonathan Conriquez former international spokesperson for the IDF Lieutenant Colonel Conriquez we are hearing first reactions from both the Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas both hailing the attack as a heroic event not claiming responsibility but trying to connect the dots if you will from the fatal clashes that took place overnight near Ramallah in the Palestinian city of Borka to today's terror attack the very heart of Tel Aviv what do you make of it yeah it's not surprising that the terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad are happy and voicing their happiness about it that is the norm to be expected it is the unfortunate situation but that is the norm and it is also unfortunate that as fast as terror organizations are to express their sympathy so slow the world and many international institutions that are very quick to condemn rightfully the killing of Palestinians are very slow in general to condemn the senseless murder of Israeli civilians even in Tel Aviv and I think that's a sad part of our reality I'm not entirely sure that the events the very unfortunate and very troubling events that happened yesterday near Ramallah in the open areas close to Ramallah and the terrorist attack today are connected but I think both are connected in the sense that they are related to Judea and Samaria an area that is becoming more and more lawless and usually I speak about the Palestinian authority and the lawlessness related to it but now unfortunately also speak about the lawlessness of Israeli civilians living there using firearms against Palestinians and confronting with Israeli security forces it's not the first time and I'm quite sure it won't be the last time and what bothers me even more is that these Jewish vigilantes have support of certain coalition members in the Israeli government and I think it is really time for the Israeli defense establishment and for the government to take stock of the potentially very dangerous situation that we find ourselves in in Judea and Samaria and focus our efforts and allow security organizations to focus on confronting terrorism not fighting Jews against the IDF or against security organizations but really focusing on Palestinian terror and making sure that anybody who is on the wrong side of the law whether he is Jewish or Arab is really condemned as such and faces consequences and not allow vigilante activity on behalf of the Jewish or Israelis in Judea and Samaria because the state of Israel is endangered by it. So El San Carlos Conriquez you've been a regular guest here in studio short weeks ago when we were extensively covering this IDF counterterrorism operation at the very same location where this perpetrator is coming from the northern West Bank city of Janine again as mentioned multiple times during this broadcast long dubbed a terror hotbed what we're seeing is it a Hamas attempt to gasinize the West Bank is today's attack can be seen as a success quote unquote in this respect well it's still too early to say but what I can I think we can say quite surely is that this is an indirect effect of many months and more than a year of very focused Hamas and Islamic jihad incitement in social media and in mosques not all of Judea and Samaria but they're increasingly successful in Janine in Nablus and in Hebron and Jericho those are the cities where they're becoming more and more successful and Janine was a terror hotbed we used to call it the suicide capital of the West Bank or Judea and Samaria back in the early 2000s the second in Tifada since then the situation has improved of late of the last year and a half additional lawlessness and lack of control of the Palestinian Authority which is leading to the situation where we have now I'm sure that Hamas are happy with the result rather that there is another Palestinian young man who decides to go on the futile activity of trying to murder Jews I commend the police officers who responded quickly and professionally neutralized the assailant and bravely and professionally avoided further bloodshed and killing and I really want to say that we should all be very appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are really under tremendous pressure lots of very diverse tasks that they have to deal with and when the reality strikes they are quick to respond and I think we should all be very thankful for the response of these police officers who weren't there on that kind of task currently as we speak a police still conducting scanning and patrolling the area to make sure this perpetrator had no accomplices there one again can only assume what would have happened unless this patrolling unit stopped him questioned him and neutralized him whether he was on his way tens of thousands of Israelis literally a block away from there usually what happens is in the near hours it is likely to assume that security, real security forces will reach the home of the terrorist in the area in the West Bank that is yeah most likely what's going on now is that ISA Shabak is gathering the information understanding where this terrorist came from who supported him if he has any known affiliates checking the background checking social media doing a dark web search of his background and of course his physical whereabouts and origins as soon as that is established that first step will be to map and mark his dwellings for future demolition after the legal proceedings are done with unfortunately this is really reality that Israelis and Palestinians have come pretty much accustomed to I'm sure that as we're speaking relatives or people who live in the same house as this terrorist did are already preparing for that event and I'm sure that there are also militants in Jenin preparing for Israeli troops to enter and we might see clashes of the troops going to conduct this very first part of the mission. Thank you very much for this we appreciate your answer back with our I-24 news senior defense correspondent Jonathan Regev live from the scene of the terror attack in Tel Aviv Jonathan Yes, for more information on the investigation we're joined by the International Spokesperson of the Israeli Police Dina Sadon thank you for being with us by now we know this quick response of these two officers basically prevented a far bigger incident do we have more information regarding how the terrorists coming from Jenin was able to come into Israel did he have a work permit or anything of this kind? Well the first thing I want to start out with is exactly what you said that thanks to the vigilance of the officers we prevented a much more heinous attack from taking place it could have been disastrous we're just feet away from restaurants from cafes we're in the heart of Tel Aviv and the residential in the center of the city so his vigilance to stop and to recognize this was a suspicious individual it prevented something horrendous from taking place and our thoughts and our deepest prayers are with him and his family because when he approached the suspicious individual this terrorist shot at him at point blank range his partner quickly fired back managed to neutralize him also sending the terrorists to the hospital now what we know is currently developing because we have a large presence of police officers are here investigating gathering surveillance footage gathering information of how he got here who he is and if there was anybody else involved that's what the police are doing but they're also maintaining the safety and the security of everybody here today we know that there's going to be a lot of people here tonight close by in Tel Aviv and our police are going to be out in large forces ensuring that everybody out is insured the freedom to protest the fundamental right to feel safe in their city two security officials prevented a big attack today another armed policeman on vacation actually prevented another big attack earlier this week in Maledumim basically this this is the place where we are I mean armed whether civilians officers on on vacation officers on site they prevented these very big attacks which as you said could have been far far worse than what eventually happened I don't think people realize police officers when you're wearing this uniform the second you take it off doesn't mean you stopped your job if you hear an incident taking place whether it's terror crime they're going to run to the scene we saw it in Maledumim we saw it here anybody wearing the uniform is going to put their life on the line to protect civilians to prevent terror attacks from taking place I don't know anywhere else in the world I don't know anywhere in Europe in the United States in Africa that are allowing terrorist attacks to take place not receiving condemnation from different countries we need to live in a place where we're always on call we're always ready to respond to these type of attacks and we will this is one of the safest places in the world and we promote everybody coming here no matter what this specific individual circumstance does not represent us as a country we're the best country in the world the most beautiful country in the world and we're going to continue defending everybody here and as you mentioned a very big protest with more than a hundred thousand people about a mile away and and and here we see many many people still out and about the restaurant cafe so on is a how's how's the security looking tonight and for days ahead the individuals who are walking around know that the people whether it's the border police the Israel police the municipality security officers they are here overtly covertly protecting them allowing them the freedom of movement the freedom of protest expression whatever it is we're here looking out for them that is what we do and we're going to continue doing it the national spokesman for the Israeli police thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for having me so very you heard it early still a investigation regarding this the the terrorist whether he acted alone or not we still have to find that out but once again armed officers on site were able to prevent a far bigger attack here in Tel Aviv same as happened a few days ago in Malay Dumim and the Israeli police are here all over the city whether it's in the protest which is very very close about a mile away and in this area with many people going out on this Saturday night this this is a situation here in Tel Aviv this evening following the terror attack happening roughly an hour and a half ago I-24 news senior and defense correspondent Jonathan Regev live for us at the scene of the terror attack at the very heart of Tel Aviv thank you very much for this much more from Jonathan Regev at the top of the hour as we will be back with our live coverage of this terror attack the center of Tel Aviv a 40 year old security man fatally wounded currently being treated at the Ichilov hospital we'll see you again at the top of the hour thank you very much for watching