 we have the situation with the protests, we have seen some disputes in the street, but nothing that, of course, even remotely close to something like a shooting could be far fetched. We don't know, but of course, all of these are possibilities that we could be looking at. Exactly. Anything is possible. Everything is, all the information is just the very initial beginning. Right now, we're hearing this happening less than 10 minutes ago, and we have to understand the Dizing of Street in Tel Aviv, a very central location, always, especially on a Thursday evening, but always a central location. A lot of people there are related to the protests, yes. Do we know if the shooting is related to the protests? Do we know of terrorism? It's way too early to tell. The investigation will continue perhaps later on. But first thing is first understanding who are the shooters making sure they're neutralized, and then, of course, trying to assess what this is connected to. Anything is possible. The background could be criminal. The background could be nationalistic, as far-fetched as it is. The background could be connected to the protests. Everything, everything is possible under these circumstances. The very tense circumstances that Israel is living at these times. Of course, anything is possible at this time. I do want to say we have to be very cautious here. There are reports of other shootings that are now going out on social media, which have been denied, so people should stay calm, obviously, though. If you live in central Tel Aviv, if you live near in the area, certainly around Dizingof, Sender and Dizingof Street, you should stay at home. Stay home until it's clear what exactly is happening, because at this time it is not clear what is exactly happening. That's true. Again, we spoke earlier on the program. This is a tense time in the West Bank. Palestinians were coming up close to the month of Ramadan, which is a time that brings usually increased tensions with the Palestinians. We saw, again, the incident in Geneva last week, and another incident today with three Palestinians killed during an IDF raid. It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility. We don't know this. It's not out of the realm of possibility that this could be terror-related. Anything is possible. Anything is possible. And as we mentioned, it was exactly a year ago. We're exactly in this location. We had a terror attack with three people killed. We now get more information from Mada, from Israel's emergency security services. We're hearing of three people injured. These are the reports now, three people injured in a shooting attack in the central dizzying of Street in Tel Aviv. What's the background unclear at the moment? Right. We are getting reports that there are massive security forces converging on the scene. That could be. And I'm going to... Okay, now we are getting a report of a suspect being apprehended. One suspect being apprehended. First of all, we don't have confirmation of that. So that's not an all-clear signal. And second, we don't know how many perpetrators could be involved here. So even if there are reports that a suspect is apprehended by no means should that be interpreted as saying the incident is over. Absolutely. It is far from over. It's still active crime scene. We're seeing live images. We could see police there. On the scene there, that's right off of Dizengoff Square there. So obviously this is a central location chosen clearly. You know, one have to say that if one were to carry out a... And I'm speculating here, please. This would be the place. If one were to carry out a terror attack, this would be the place. You would choose this for the symbolic import of the place that it is at Dizengoff Center. Square. And again, if we go back to the terror attack a year ago, it happened exactly in the same place. These images that we saw in the intersection of Dizengoff and Gurion Street, a very central location in downtown Tel Aviv. Busy any time of day, any time of night, especially busy on a Thursday night, especially busy when so many people around the city connected to the protests, a very central location. We're hearing of a shooting attack over there. What exactly happened? What's the background? Not clear? If really there is a suspect under arrest, maybe, and if that suspect is connected, maybe more information could be provided regarding whatever happened there. Still, many questions to be asked at this time. Not exactly clear what is going on. There is an announcement by the mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Khodai, where he's saying we are talking about a terror attack. One of the terrorists has been neutralized. I request all of the protesters out on the streets now to cease their protests now and return home. So that is dramatic development, Jonathan. By the way, three injured in the Tel Aviv, we should update. Our Stripe on that reports now are three injured in a shooting, but a dramatic development here. The mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Khodai, saying this was a terrorist incident. Three people injured in this. He is now asking those people who are out on the streets protesting, and there's thousands, if not tens of thousands, out on the streets. He is requesting that they cease the protests this evening, return home. One of the shooter, a suspect apprehended, but certainly we could be talking about a second shooter involved here. And of course, that could be a very dangerous situation. Absolutely. And this now is treated as a terror attack. We're also seeing images of the shooter there shooting in the street. The mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Khodai, as you mentioned, treating this as a terror attack. And again, we're hearing more information regarding two different locations there along Disingof Street. And as we've spoken about, three people injured. Two different locations there in Disingof Street, a very central location within Tel Aviv. And we have to know if there really is a terrorist either killed or in custody. And once his identity is known, it could perhaps give us a little more information regarding what has happened this evening in Tel Aviv. All right. Well, we have on the phone a lone aviator, of course, Skype, I'm sorry, from former Palestinian Affairs expert, former advisor Kogadin. Alone, it's looking now. We don't have official confirmation from the IDF, but from the Tel Aviv, Mayor, Ron Khodai. This is a terror attack, and it looks like it's timed on the, you know, the one-year anniversary of last day, and maybe connected to those events, for example, in Janine in the last few days. Yeah, sure, Kalev. I can tell you that in the moment, I got a few evidences or pictures that shows that it was really a terror attack in the area of North Tel Aviv. There was a terrorist which held a gun and they shooted people around the streets. It seems that this terrorist took advantage of the situation, and I think that there are unique circumstances if you want. Well, let's talk about them alone, because on one hand, as you said, a lot of people out on the streets, police dealing with them, but at the same time, a lot of police out on the streets might have been able to get to the scene quickly. We don't know yet. Exactly. The majority of the police forces are concentrated or focused in the demonstration. Thousands of people going around the streets in the center and north of Tel Aviv, and the police is focused in this event, a wide event. And I think that when the police should make a kind of balance, the focus on the option of terror attack at the same time is less than the protest. So I think that this terrorist used the unique circumstances and crossed the street over there and started to shoot. I think that we are in the middle. We are still in the middle of the attack because so far there is no official response by the police if the terrorist was caught or not. If the terrorist attack was final or not, we are still staying for the official statement. And I think it could be escalate, not just in Tel Aviv, but also in other districts, because you want to mention that just yesterday, the IDF forces killed a few Palestinians in Nablus area, terrorists I mean. And today three Palestinian terrorists were killed in Jenin area. So we are still in the middle of a terror wave in the West Bank. And now we can see maybe a response of the events in the West Bank of the escalation that was made direct in the center of Tel Aviv. And I think that this weekend will be, I hope it will be quiet, but I'm afraid to say that. All right, now we do, by the way, I do want to say that the police have said they have neutralized the suspect, but there has been final confirmation from the IDF, people should still stay in place. We do have some video, hold on a little, because we do have some video, apparently hearing the shots that were fired this evening. Let's see if we can listen to that. All right, well there you have an active scene. Perhaps it sounds like a gunfire, perhaps that's the moment when the police neutralize them. And along the question is, this is an escalation. The question is, what kind of escalated response could we possibly see from Israeli, Israel, from Israeli security forces and the IDF in reaction to this? I can assume in this time, in real time, I can assume that in the West Bank and maybe Jerusalem district, we are, let's say tomorrow is a Friday, so Friday will be a tense time. And I think that immediately the IDF forces and the Shabbat, the Israeli intelligence agency and the police together should plan the next day what will be the main mission for them. And I think that the fact that this terror attack happened in Tel Aviv, it changed the state of mind. The state of mind of the IDF during the last week and the Shabbat also was a terror attack of violence or escalation in the West Bank and on the border between Israel and Gaza, on the fence over there in the southern front. Now, for a long time, few months, we didn't see any terror attack in the center of Tel Aviv. And now we have, I would say, a new challenge, all new challenge, but we are in the beginning of a new situation. Right. And alone, especially with your experience with Kogat, the branch of the Defense Ministry that deals with civil administration, whenever there's a terror attack like this in Tel Aviv, questions are raised. If it is the Palestinian we're talking about, how he arrived there? Did he cross the fence? Was he licensed to be a work? We have a picture there of the shooter. Clearly, this was a determined terror attack we could see right there. Dramatic photo of the attacker. So I imagine that's going to be one of the first questions is how this attacker, if it's a Palestinian, how did he get to the center of Tel Aviv? Of course. I think that the IDF and the police forces have started already in investigation to look for the data or the details about this man, about the operation, how he got to Tel Aviv by car, not by car, who supported him, who gave him some help outside of Tel Aviv and so on. And in the end of the night, I think that we should have all the details about the terrorist and the other circles around him. And I think that those details will lead the Shabbat and the IDF and the police together to their new mission tomorrow morning. It means, for example, if this terrorist, just for example, we don't have the full details right now, but if this one came from East Jerusalem, for example, it's under the umbrella of the police. And if the terrorist came from Gaza and succeed to cross the defense, it means that dozens of Palestinian workers who enter Israel every day now will be under closure. So every details will lead us to a new or a different conclusion. Right. And Jonathan, alone stay with us, but I just want to go to Jonathan Regev in studio for a minute. Jonathan, this attack may have absolutely nothing to do with the current internal political debate in Israel over the judicial reforms. It's looking like this was a Palestinian assailant maybe striking on the anniversary of last year's attack or towards the month of Ramadan. But because it happened today, when we're having these protests throughout the country, especially in Tel Aviv, and a day when just hours ago, it was reported that National Security Minister Edomar Ben-Ghver had dismissed the commander of the Tel Aviv district from his job because he was unhappy with how he was handling the protests. And then later, just a couple of hours later, there's a terror attack in Tel Aviv. You know there's going to be a lot of comment about how this relates to the political situation. Yeah, it should not be related to the political situation, but of course it will be. Everyone, everyone will state it when it comes to the coalition. They will say that because of the protestors take so much of the attention of the police towards the protest, the police is not able to deal with what it really should do, and that is sporting terrorism. The opposition will say that now the Tel Aviv district, perhaps the most important outside the Jerusalem district, they will say that the Tel Aviv district does not have a commissioner. There's no police chief in Tel Aviv because the minister in charge took him away because he's unhappy with the way that he dealt with terrorism. A few minutes later, this is happening, so we can expect maybe an hour or two where the politicians will put politics aside. Tomorrow morning, you can bet they will speak about it. I'm not even sure there's going to be an hour of that. Maybe I complimented them too much. I think so. I'm sure that's, I haven't looked at the social media yet, but I can be sure there'll be comments on it. But alone, there are going to be questions raised. I'll just put it in more of the context of the security, a lot of confusion, a lot of discussion about whether the lines of authority in various bodies, as you mentioned, that deal with these kind of incidents, are being established, whether those lines are crossed, and whether this is in some way going to reflect badly, whether it is anything to do with it or not, about some of the reorganization that the current government is doing when it comes to the security field. Yes, of course, it's a question of the responsibility area. The limit between the separation between the police and the Shabak, which means the intelligence agency and the IDF around Tel Aviv, it's an open question because who is responsible about terror attack which happened in Tel Aviv? Is the Shabak, the intelligence agency or the police, or what's about the responsibility of the IDF if these terrorists came from West Bank? Alone, I'm going to ask you to let you know. Alone, I'm going to ask you this to hold the thought for a minute because we do have a live report from a worker for MADA, the Emergency Medical Rescue Service, Israel. Can you hear me? Yeah, can you hear me? Yes, I can. Israel, just tell us what you're seeing, what you're experiencing, what you know about the scene there on D's and Goff. Okay, good evening. In 840, we got a call, received a call to the operation dispatch about the gun shooting in Tel Aviv, where our crew just came to the scene, they find like a three person that was shot in a seriously condition, and immediately we start to treat the patient and to transport the patient to the hospital. And on the way, of course, we still were treating the patient. All right, well, this is what we know, we're hearing three injured, we're hearing one in serious or even critical condition, the others moderate or light, can you confirm any of that? Yeah, it is true that we have one in a seriously condition and we have one here with us. There is also in a seriously condition, one of us. I'm not going to say in a great condition, but it is okay. A moderate condition? Yeah. Okay, what do you know? I mean, have the police told you whether there, we know that one suspect has been neutralized, has been killed by presumably by police. Have you had any information about that when you were active on the scene, whether all the suspects have been neutralized or there are still concerns, there's some possible risk on near that area? We are not sure about it, the police job and I'm not allowed to say something about it, of course. When we, the suspects on the scene here, they think it is a terrorist, they're not sure about it yet, and they checking that information. And in the other area in Tel Aviv and all the other calls that people calling the police and thinking that maybe we have another scene or another terrorist in the area is the police job. I'm not allowed to say anything about it. I understand. Let me ask you, there's a lot of people out on the streets in Tel Aviv. The mayor, Ron Choudai, has told all those participating in the protests to please return home now. Was there any trouble getting through to the scene, then getting the injured to the hospital? No, no, no. A lot of people on the street, but when they heard the sirens, everyone was just moving to the side and allowed to get to the scene and to do our job. The police meeting in Tel Aviv, they're great jobs. They're helping us. They were helping us to take the patient to the hospital to make sure that although the way is still open for us and all the patients, they came to the hospital like in a few or four minutes from the start of the gun shooting on the scene. Yes, sir. Thank you for joining us on I-24 News. You're welcome. Have a good night. And Jonathan, there's certainly confirmation there. We do have some victim of this terror incident. We now know a terror incident who is in serious, perhaps even critical condition being taken to hospital. You get a sense that this could have, we saw the picture of the shooter could have maybe ended a lot worse. It may have been advantageous to fact that a lot of police are out on the streets in Tel Aviv this evening. Yes, the fact that he was shot and neutralized right on the spot, I think it prevented this terrible incident from being much, much worse. This is one fact. Of course, if we spoke earlier about politics, this will also lead to the question, should we have more gun in the streets? Should we not have more gun in the streets? That's also something that will be brought up. We don't know the identity of the shooter yet, but this is a very important point, something that you also stressed in your conversation with the owner of Yatara a few minutes ago. It is really very important to understand where the shooter came from. If that shooter came from the West Bank, then we have to understand how exactly he crossed from the West Bank into Israel. If he had work permits in Israel, was he allowed to cross? Where did he get the gun? Questions like that. But if this shooter came from East Jerusalem, something that we have to understand and we mention it again and again, especially when we speak of terror attacks happening in Jerusalem, but it's true for anywhere in Israel. East Jerusalem might have every right, practically every right that every other Israeli citizen has, meaning they have the freedom to travel freely anywhere in Israel. Anywhere in Israel, people from East Jerusalem can drive just like any other Israeli citizen. And there's also the possibility of this being an Israeli citizen. We have seen an attack in Dizengov. It was 2016, if I remember correctly, carried out by an Israeli citizen from northern Israel. So once the identity of the shooter is understood, then perhaps more information could be obtained regarding as to how that person arrived to Israel to Tel Aviv with a shooting gun. Many questions there. Right. And alone this government, the new government came in vowing to toughen policies against Palestinians. But now we're facing, this is the first time they'll be facing this kind of terror attack. I would say, if you want to say in the heart of Israel, meaning in central Tel Aviv, is this libel to make them start reviewing policies? For example, with Kogad, with the granting of permits to Palestinians to come work to Israel, something that is providing a vital economic lifeline to those Palestinians in the West Bank? Yes, of course. And I can mention Kalev in this time that in the middle of the terror attack that two weeks ago, we had the Akaba summit. And after Akaba summit, we heard a few statements also by Israel, the Israeli side and the Palestinian side that both sides will be by pressure by USA. But both sides will try to calm down the situation and lead for security stability in the West Bank, which means preventing terror by the Israeli side just in emergency cases and so on. And therefore, I think that this terror attack, if it came from the West Bank, it's also changed the situation. We are going to the beginning, to the D-Day, if you want. And I think that now the current situation should lead the headquarters, the security headquarters, maybe to a new development, which means a new policy, which means examine and analyze the statement or the declarations from Akaba summit, how it could be realistic. Right. I can tell you as much as I know, I can assume that the terrorist was shot by a professional. It wasn't a sport and without any casualties instead of him. Okay. Lone Evittor, thank you for joining us. I want to see if we have on the phone Rafael Bosch from the United Hatsala, also Medical Rescue Service. He's not on the scene, but Rafael, are you with us? Yes, hi. How are you? I know I understand you're not on the scene, but do you have any information on the casualties this evening there on these in Gough? Yeah. Our volunteers responded very quickly. We had about 15 volunteers in the scene with four ambulances. They treated two people at the scene, one in moderate condition, one in light condition. There was another person who was injured who we weren't allowed access to. And we treated them at the scene. We also treated a number of people for emotional shock who were at the scene. Obviously witnessing these things are very traumatic. We went there or psychotrauma and crisis response unit was there providing emotional stabilization and psychological treatment as well as what's called psychological first aid. That was in addition to the medical treatment that was being given on the scene as well. Right, Rafael. We do have reports of two people, two wounded moderately, which coincide with your report. You said there was one person you weren't approached. That would that have been the case we're getting of someone in serious perhaps even in critical condition who's been taken to Iqalaf Medical Center? I can't really verify that or not because the volunteers who I spoke to were at the scene were not able to access that person or approach. Therefore, they weren't able to give me a report of what's going on. So I'm not able to verify that. Okay, so we do have reports that all of those victims of the shooting have been taken to Iqalaf Medical Center in Central Tel Aviv. And of course, we'll update you on their condition as it is happening. Back with us in the studio, reserves IDF Major General Eitan Dango. Eitan, we were saying perhaps this situation is not going to escalate towards Ramadan or at least not in Gaza, but this is an escalation, the heart of Tel Aviv. You warned, one attack could change the equation that we've been looking at and now we have to start asking if this is going to turn out to be that. Tel Aviv, I connected to what happened in Jenin a few days ago and also maybe to what happened today. It has a very clear contact that has released some of those people who are prepared already and a lot of excitement in there and send them to make such a thing. First of all, about to make such a terror activity in the heart of Tel Aviv, in Disney of it's not in the first time, it's something with the message. Secondly, it has been done for what we know now by one terrorist, but now we are looking about opportunities of one or two that cooperate with him. Because always who bring you to the place you start to shoot, something has brought him or he got some help from someone with the pistol with others. Secondly, what I heard that the guy who shot him, the terrorist in the area of the restaurant was a fighter from a special unit who was in an early day. Now as you know Tel Aviv is full with all the restaurants and what happened today, there is a lack also of deployment. A lot of policemen all over Tel Aviv because of the demonstrations. So what we are in the middle of a circle of terror activities, we are now have to close the circle to find out from where did it come to look for others and also to be on readiness to start to be ready on preventing from other kind of activities. It is escalation with the terror, tomorrow it's Friday and the praying in East Jerusalem all over the mosque. We are entering to a very sensitive 24 hours. I just want to read Prime Minister Netanyahu who is in Rome as we reported this evening has been informed of the incident. He just released a statement, a very serious attack in Tel Aviv, a terrorist attack, sending recovery wishes to the injured. We are strengthening the police and security forces. This will not weaken our determination to plant roots in our homeland. Let's go to our anchor, Natasha Kerchak, anchor of our Israel business program who is there in the area of Central Tel Aviv. Natasha, what are you seeing out there where you are? Well, this is eerily similar to what took place just a couple of months ago here in Tel Aviv. I was out on the street like most Israelis on a Thursday night enjoying the preparation, you could say, for the weekend. Having a glass of wine and the bar right behind us. It is now half empty because so many people have gotten up and left. Of course, you still always have your Tel Avivians and Israelis who sit it out no matter what the situation is on the ground. But you might be able to hear in the background, we've been hearing ambulances pass consistently, making their way towards Dizengaf, which is just a couple of blocks away from us right now. At this point, we know that there are at least four who have been injured in a shooting attack that is near the corner of Dizengaf and Ben Glyon. They were sitting apparently in a cafe outside. We know that there are potentially two suspects who are involved in this, and one of them has been neutralized. Again, the way that it works here in Tel Aviv, typically when there are attacks like this and sadly Dizengaf is one of the most popular boulevards in this city. A lot of young people go out and have a drink there, especially during the weekends and throughout the week. So it's consistently targeted when it comes to shooting attacks. What happens here is when there is an attack like this, almost immediately everyone's phone starts blowing up. People are texting one another, are you okay? Did you hear that? Where are you? So almost immediately, even before this hit the news, I was receiving message after message after message from friends that had heard that there had been some kind of incident that took place. Now, I just spoke with the owners of the bar right behind me. You can see, like I said, there are still people sitting outside. They said that it started clearing out pretty significantly. This was absolutely packed just a half an hour ago. When they heard the news, a lot of people decided to get up. They turned the music down slightly. But again, there are some people who say they're going to continue trying to enjoy their night. They feel safe to each his own. All right. I guess so. It's Tel Aviv. It takes a lot to deter people there. Natasha Kirchak, thanks for joining us. So there are reports now of four wounded, but one lightly wounded, two moderate to serious injuries, but one in critical condition. They have been taken, certainly those in the serious and critical injuries have been taken to Ichilov Hospital. We keep saying that we said the shooter, the terrorist was neutralized, but he was taken to Ichilov Hospital, apparently, in like critical condition. But he was not killed on the scene. We don't know his current state, but he was taken to hospital. She mentioned a potential second suspect. We have no information on that, so far what we're hearing, it was one suspect who was neutralized on the scene. And we are getting reports, Etana, relating to what you said, that the security officer who shot the terrorist dead belonged to the Special Unit 33, which is called the Ghidonim Unit. And you said he was apparently off duty, but of course carrying his weapon and was able to neutralize. Yes. And this is one of the way we are using to defend the people during their activities. Policemen and security forces cannot be everywhere. So the using of arms, especially by people who are professional to carry, is one of the best things to close such event as it has begun. Just imagine what happened if he has the time to shoot more. And we are talking about seconds, not about even minutes and the reaction immediately. Probably I have not been there until the final investigation. I think it's saved many people life because I know this area very well. It's very crowded there. Everyone, you know, walking also on the pavement. You have in the junction there many people. So he succeeded with that probably with the policemen were deployed a lot now in Tel Aviv because of the demonstration that even now I heard during the way back to come to the studio. I heard the mayor of Tel Aviv calling to all the demonstrators to leave the place and to return back to return. But I think that it's a sign. When such a thing happened, a murderer bring a murderer. So this is the way to strength now all the area of Tel Aviv and other places inside Israel. Also, of course, in Jerusalem, east of Jerusalem, besides the regular operational activity. We just spoken about it half an hour ago about what happened in nearby Jenin. It means that the IDF is closing the West Bank. What is interesting to look whether this guy, he got the permanent to go inside to work. I just going to note that over the Purim holiday, which we just finished, it was closed. Is it possible that when it was reopened that this shoulder took advantage of that? It can be a guy that stay in Tel Aviv even he was supposed to return back. The way whether it was improved by the Israel Inter Security Service to work or it was someone who entered to Israel illegally. Right. I'm just going to there was a comment from a Hamas spokesperson. It's not a claim of responsibility, I would say. It's a more general comment. The attack of Tel Aviv is an initial response to the crimes committed by Israel in the West Bank and specifically in Jenin. We don't know the motivation here, but Hamas is quick to jump on it and to link it. Jonathan to the Jenin, the incidents we saw in Jenin today and of course last week, much even more serious one last week. Yes, exactly. And they're not, they're not waiting. Two days ago, I'm sorry. I'm confused as to why last week. They're not even waiting to find out the identity of the terrorists as far as they're concerned. This is something that is related to everything that has happened here in the past few weeks. There was an operation in the village of Jabba this morning. There was an operation in Jenin earlier this week. So as far as Hamas is concerned, they're behind us. You mentioned the Gaza earlier on today. Hamas, I think, is doing an exceptional job in one, on one hand, keeping the Gaza border. I'm not going to say completely quiet, but almost completely quiet. But on the other hand, inciting, constantly inciting for violence in the West Bank and what would be a major prize for them, violence within Israel. If we look at what happened, it was almost two years ago, Operation Guardian of the Walls. Probably the biggest success for Hamas was bringing parts of the Arab-Israeli community to clashes with the police and with the general Israeli community. Therefore, I think this is what Hamas is really looking for. On one hand, keeping their own court as quiet as possible, the Gaza border. On the other hand, constantly inciting for violence in the West Bank, in Israel and Jerusalem. Right, and we're seeing some footage being released, maybe on Palestinian social media. We do have a response of a family celebrating in Jenin. We don't know if that's connected with the shooting or maybe it's one of the victims. There is a statement by... Okay, so we have a statement by the... You know, one thing we hadn't seen yet on the scene is the National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Vir, who recall has been very quickly on the scene of other terror attacks. We're now seeing Channel 12 is reporting that Minister Ben-Vir was asked by his security guards not to come to the scene of the attack in Tel Aviv, presumably out of concern that it could be ongoing. It was not declared here that it's over. It means you're looking for those who cooperate with the guy and you have to investigate. So he has to stay in a place as a minister and not to come to run everywhere, every place. And drop police towards you that could be doing other... It'd be pleasant to work now and not to talk. We do have to say... It looks like somebody is on the scene. I'm looking live pictures from the scene. I can't really see. Somebody is speaking there. Can't confirm that yet. But we do have to say... I mean, we do have to say, Eitan, that this is what Hamas wants to see. This is exactly what they want to see. They want to keep the action in the West Bank, bring it to Israel in a way that is not going to bring a direct retaliation on its installations in Gaza. Exactly. And this is bringing the courage to people to go and to make it more. As I say, a murderer, bring a murderer. And they would like to keep Gaza outside from this kind of the area of terrorism or clash with Israel or escalation with Israel. They make some symbols as it was mentioned here. And they are launching rockets or using on the ground something against our border forces or sending the people to demonstrate near the fence. But Hamas has a very clear strategy. I think it will bring the Israeli authorities very soon to sit and to think about changing the policy. Whether you are going to involve those who are making the higher incitement from Hamas, from Lebanon, from Gaza, who has the responsibility for the increasing of this kind of terrorism or to keep them outside and keep it as it is now. One arena in the West Bank, secondly in East Jerusalem inside Israel. The third arena in Gaza. It means as I was to calculate concerning what's going in there. As you mentioned today, the State Secretary of Defense of the United States has paid a visit to Israel and we are also talking about the main threat to Israel, Iran, that all the area is busy with it. Alright, let's go to our Middle East correspondent, Ariel Osren, who is near the scene of this evening's attack on Dizengaf Street in Jerusalem. And so to be a Tel Aviv. Ariel, what's the scene where you are? What can you tell us? Right, Kalev. The scene is that the street is filled with emergency vehicles, police, ambulances, the entire street, Dizengaf is a main, key recreation street on Thursday night. Bars, restaurants are filled with people, but now streets are filled with police cars and personnel. We have, what's interesting is that there's the sight of the shooting which is being cleared, but there constantly you see police personnel, border police running from one point to another. On every block you see two border policemen standing there because they are still searching for potential suspects who may have assisted the shooter who has been neutralized by Israeli forces. And so while it is clear that one incident has finished, the police is still searching for a potential suspect who may have assisted the shooter or not. I don't know if you can hear the helicopter above me. There's searches all around and dozens, if not hundreds of police personnel from a variety of different units here on the streets engaging in also securing the scene, but also searching for additional suspects. Right. We do have a comment. Stay on the line with us, Ariel. We do have a comment from the opposition leader, Yashiti party leader Yehia Lapid. His statement reads, quote, a difficult evening in Tel Aviv, a terror attack in the heart of a leisure area. I wish a speedy recovery to the injured and strengthen the police and security forces for their efforts to restore peace in the streets. Terrorism must be dealt with without hesitation. And as I said, Ariel, a lot of questions are going to be raised here about this attack, even though it may not even have any direct connection to it happening this evening in the midst of these protests going on in Tel Aviv. And a lot of it say internal turmoil within the police and let's say security forces given these sort of political backdrop. Indeed, Kalev, Israeli police has been stretched thin during these past few weeks, given the wide scope of these nationwide protests. But they have been concentrated in Tel Aviv, as we saw today, as well as in recent weeks. And you're talking about the turmoil within police just a few hours ago, Israel's national security minister, Ismail Ben Qaeda, who by the way was instructed by his bodyguard not to come to the scene of the attack here in Tel Aviv. He dismissed or removed from office the commander of the Tel Aviv police because of the way the protest, the treatment of the protests that they were allowed to block the streets. Whether there's a direct connection, probably not. I mean, this doesn't seem to have any connection, at least out of now, to the protest. But this would not be the first attack in Tel Aviv, it would not be the first attack. Last April, there was the deadly shooting here, and Dizigov, also on a Thursday, three Israelis were killed. So far, we have four Israelis wounded in different conditions, critical, severe, moderate, and light. Right now, we mentioned national security minister, Ismail Ben Qaeda. We do have a comment from him. We are also dealing with security, understanding that in big events a terrorist could strike this evening while we're dealing with a protest. A terrorist arrived to Dizigov Street, shot three people on the street, injured them, and began running away. As he was running away, two policemen in the area were able to shoot him in the area. We are still conducting searches to find out if there are more terrorists in the area. It's a difficult evening. I ask you all to be patient. As of now, all the protests are over and we're in a static position. We still don't know the identity of the terrorists. We're checking with all the other bodies to understand who is the terrorist, and this is our main issue. This is our main goal. We're checking all the issues, and when we know the identity of the terrorist, we will let you know. Obviously, Tel Aviv is always threatened, always a lot of concerns, a lot of alerts, but in Tel Aviv, there's always a potential for terrorism. This is a Tel Aviv police commissioner who's now being asked how does he feel when the Minister of National Security is telling him that he's dismissed from this post. How does it feel to get a phone call like this, and how can he run this operation now after receiving such a call from his boss? I'm not the issue. The residents of the State of Israel and the city of Tel Aviv are the issue. I am doing everything possible to save lives, and this is what I'm doing this evening. Everything else at this time is irrelevant. We will deal with them when the time is right. Alright, so that was the Tel Aviv police commissioner who just hours ago was dismissed from his job, but still is on the scene there handling the situation. Let's go to our Natasha Kirchak who is there near the scene, and Natasha, what do you have for us? So we're just a couple of blocks away from the site of tonight's shooting attack. As you can see, the bar that I'm at right now, this is pretty much full about a half an hour ago. It emptied out, and now it's filling up again, Tel Avivians seem to be saying, hey, you know, it's a scary night, but they're going to continue going out. I actually have Tomer right here. He works at this bar. You know, Tomer, you decided to stay working tonight and not go home. The bar has stayed open to people watching from abroad. This might seem a little bit strange. Can you kind of explain to our viewers why you made that choice? Yeah, sure. Well, you know, in Tel Aviv, there are kind of these things that have been in the last few years, many of these kinds of attacks. Okay, we have lost the feed there. I just want to update you on a couple of comments. The National Security Minister, Edama Ben-Gvir, was actually advised by his security patrol not to arrive to the scene, not to create a distraction from the ongoing investigation there. He did release a statement saying, quote, a serious attack in Tel Aviv at this difficult moment. I pray for the healing of the injured and wish them a complete recovery on behalf of the entire nation of Israel. I congratulate the brave fighter from the border guard who would have brave action eliminated the despicable terrorist and saved the lives of many. There was a further comment from Benjamin Netanyahu, who is meeting now with representatives of the Jewish community in Italy relating to it, saying, I am sure that these things will not weaken our determination to continue building a country to play in deep roots in our homeland and to secure a common future. Let's try to go back to our Natasha Kerchak. Natasha, are you with us? Natasha, are you with us? Yeah. Yes, we are with you. Looks like we dropped our connection there. But I'm here with Tel Merit. He works at the bar right behind me, and he has decided to stay working tonight despite the fact that a lot of people are choosing to go home. You can see that this bar behind us is actually filled up again with locals, so people seem to be out. Tell me, what made you decide to stay here tonight? Explain what it's like to live in this city where you're pretty unfortunately used to shooting attacks like this. Yeah. I mean, as I said, the city is such a lively city, and people here love to go out. And every night this place is really full, and this is such a lively area. So even if these things happen, these attacks, they happen. There was a last one in the same area in Disney Gulf, I think like two years ago, and stuff like this happens all the time. And we must go on. We can't let the terrorists win. I mean, if they hit us and we climb back down and go into our homes and be scared of everything and stop our lives, then we lost. We lost the mental war. But you are going to obviously get in contact with your family. Yeah, of course. The moment this thing happened, my mom called me and I talked to my friends. They all asked me if I'm okay as a person living in Tel Aviv. You know, everyone asked me what's happening. Do you feel like there is kind of an understanding among people who live here when there are events like this? Yeah, I think so. I think so. I mean, I think it's such a discommunity in Tel Aviv. We're all really, we know Israel. We know what's going on here. We choose to live here. We stay here. We work here. We grow families here. And we know what... You're not going to go anywhere. Exactly. We know what the price is. You know, I just want to tell you guys, I spoke to two tourists right behind us who are from Finland. They heard about what happened and when they looked around they saw the other Israelis choosing to stay here and continue having their glass of wine tonight, knock it up. They said, okay, we're going to do the same. They seem to be calm. So obviously, very tense situation. We know that there are more people tonight. Very, very scary. But at the same time, Israelis who are out here tonight in Tel Aviv, especially after a long day of protests that have taken over the city, say we're going to try to enjoy the night to the best of our ability despite the situation. Right. I don't know, Natasha, tell me if you could call that the Israeli spirit, the Tel Aviv spirit, the Zionist spirit. But it certainly does express something and really thank you for joining us. My pleasure. Have a great night, guys. We're going to keep going. Don't worry. All right, but we're still here. Keep going, but police still, at least in the immediate area, rather don't want people to come to the immediate area, but I guess people are going to be out in Tel Aviv, the city that never sleeps, no matter what Natasha told me. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. Thank you, guys. Reports now. Defense Minister Joav Galant, of course, Prime Minister Netanyahu is out of the country. A-time Defense Minister Galant at Shin Bet headquarters trying to deal. And of course, one of the questions he's going to be asking. I think that one of the things that he will demand and talk with them is how to strengthen the area of the urban city in Tel Aviv, how to prepare tomorrow about Jerusalem, third about IDF in the West Bank. But what he will ask, whether they have information about this intention to make this kind of activity, whether there are another kind of intelligence coming. One of the many important things is now is to investigate and to look who brought him from where does it come. The main part is now the identity of the terrorist. It can be someone from the West Bank, legal or illegally. It can be even extremist Israeli Arab. So we have to wait patiently and to look for it. I believe that it will be together with the police, with the Interior Security Service, with the IDF. I think Israel should and will take immediately some measures of strengthening the security manpower all over these places in order to create much atmosphere of security to the people, self-security to go out tomorrow. It's Friday, all the preparation for Shabbat in the West Bank. So they will deal for the coming 48 hours. The other part will be about the information for where does it come, what will be the measures toward this kind of terrorist, whether it come from the West Bank, maybe about his home, his family will be some arresting. After it will be find out about the identity. I didn't hear any kind of information till now. No group has claimed credit. But we don't know if this could have been what they call a lone wolf attacker. But clearly there was some planning here to get to the Tel Aviv. He was armed with a weapon, a gun. But we have a caliph to look what happened in Janine on the 7th was belonging towards Hamas. The murderer that killed in Hawa was killed in this kind of activity. He was belonging to Hamas. Today morning it was Jihad Islamic. So this kind of information is coming from the outside circle. Let's go to our aerial also. Is that any other scene of the shooting, Ariel? What's going on there? Well, Kalev, we're here at the site of the shooting in Dizengov on the corner with Ben Yehuda. And as you can see, large amounts of police forces concentrating here talking about hundreds of police personnel from different units. And there's also a drone above, helicopter above. And that's because following the shooting there are still concerns that there's perhaps still suspect that large who assisted the gunman neutralized by Israeli police. As you can see, different groups of police officers huddling, trying to analyze the situation, assess the situation and plan for continuation of searching for the suspect. If there wasn't another, at least a suspicion of another suspect at large, we would not be seeing this amount of forces concentrated so long after the attack. And so this indicates that while the initial shooting has been finished, today's event here at Dizengov is far from over. All right, certainly it is far from over. Ariel, thank you for that. I just want to just recap briefly what we know because it now looks, reports that there are the three injured. But it may not be that one is Israeli or one other person other than the terrorist was seriously or critically injured. We do know that the shooter, the terrorist, was critically injured by a police officer or police commando officers on the scene, who were actually off duty. He was taken to hospital, the terrorist, the shooter. He is in critical condition. Now it may not be another victim who was critically injured. It may be at least two serious to moderate injured. It may be that we might have gotten through this incident without a fatality other than the terrorist involved. And given the circumstances of what we've seen, this might have been a very unfortunate incident no matter what. But we might have been lucky here, getting coming off with this. There are even conflicting reports now where we're constantly speaking of three people injured. One of them might be the terrorist. That's what I'm saying. We do not know that. But yeah, obviously the fact that whoever, the people that responded and showed the terrorist on the side, they prevented something which could have been far, far bigger than this. We've seen such incidents in Dizingov Street in the past. We've seen such incidents all over Israel in the past. And they can end whenever the shooting involved, the numbers can be very, very high. Yes, it's a difficult night, but it's a terrible night. But it could have been much, much worse according to what we're hearing now. And the main question now, of course, we're trying to understand the identity of this terrorist, where exactly he came from. There are many options, as we said. He might have come from the West Bank, from East Jerusalem, from Israel proper. Once the identity is understood and where exactly the terrorist came from, we can get a little more information where we're constantly speaking about lone wolf attacks. All that is true. Lone wolf attacks, usually they tend to come with knives, with a car. If there's a gun involved, then probably there was also some kind of an organization behind this. Where exactly did that person get the gun? Does he know how to use it? Many questions there. All right. Well, stay with us on I-24. As we are going to go out for a break at the top of the hour. Benito Levine will pick it up with us in studio. We'll continue our coverage on I-24 News. Shooting incident teller. Do you have at least two injured? Possibly three. We don't know yet. The terrorists neutralized in critical condition by officers on the scene. We started this night talking about the protests in Tel Aviv. And it looks like we're continuing with reports of this terror attack in the heart of Tel Aviv. Stay with us on I-24 News. Download the I-24 News app available on Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple and Google stores. I-24 News, C-Beyond. What we're making today, it has a very long name. It's called Kolokifokeftedes. It's zucchini balls, fritters, with feta cheese, with olive oil, all kinds of different spices and greens. The second version of it is tomato and leek, same style. This is food that is served as appetizer in a Greek tavern or in a Greek family lunch or dinner. And it refers to the old days when Greeks were more poor than today. They didn't have meat, so they would substitute it with tomatoes and leeks or zucchini and make fritters like balls, like kefte. So that's where it all comes from. Athens, Greece. And I've been to Israel many, many times as a journalist in the past because this is my morning job. And that's how I met my wife Natalie and then we moved. I moved to Elat and a few months ago we moved to Yaffo. For months I'm hosting here in our house and in other venues in Tel Aviv this event. We cook meals of 12, 13, 14 dishes sometimes. It's a big, you know, a Greek meal should be big. This is basic. If it's not big, it's not Greek. And then we also had musicians with us, guitar players. The Greek dream is to be a tavern owner and have your friends overeating every day. This is the basic dream of every Greek person. And that's what we want to give here, the atmosphere of a family tavern. That the wife and the husband are the only workers there. They cook and serve and sing and do everything. I love my culture. I love this part of Greek culture, which is music and food and entertainment. And I'm trying to bring it here and I enjoy it very much. News edition, I'm Venita Levine coming to you live from Tel Aviv. A terror attack in Tel Aviv. Three people have been shot and wounded in the city centre at the intersection of the well-known Dizengaf and Vangurion streets shortly before 9pm local time in a bustling part of the city. Police and paramedics are on the scene. There's Mayor Ron Haldai confirming the shooting is being treated as a terror attack. One gunman has been neutralised. The wounded are men in their 20s. They have been rushed to Ichalov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Italy. He was addressing representatives of the Jewish community in Rome when his advisers updated him on the attack. Now in his reaction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying this is a very serious attack in Tel Aviv. A terrorist attack. He is sending wishes for a recovery to the injured adding that they are strengthening the police and security forces and he says, quote, this will not weaken our determination to plant roots in our home land. In his response, opposition leader Jair Lapid calling this a difficult evening in Tel Aviv. A terrorist attack in the heart of an entertainment area. He says terrorism must be dealt with without hesitation. And in his response, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gavir saying this is a serious attack in Tel Aviv at this difficult moment. He says he prays for the healing of the wounded and wishes them a complete recovery on behalf of the entire nation of Israel. He also congratulated the border guard who, quote, eliminated the despicable terrorist and saved the lives of many. So for more in studio, we welcome Major General in the Reserves, Etan Dangot, former military secretary to three Ministers of Defense and Senior Research Fellow at the Miriam Institute and our defense correspondent, Jonathan Regev. So Etan, I'm going to start with you. You're shooting in the heart of Tel Aviv a busy night, Thursday night, your assessment of what's going on right now. The situation is now is trying to close the circle of this kind of event to be sure that there is no others in the area to get the intelligence whether there are those who are deployed in other places in order to create another terror activities to find out who is the murderer that did it, from where does it come, whether he had some people who cooperate with him and on another way to open a large circle in order to be ready for other kind because in such cases, murderers bring murderers. So in this kind of opportunity, now in urban city inside Israel like Tel Aviv, East Jerusalem, tomorrow are the prayers in the mosque to be ready for a very tense day and on the other end to close the West Bank also with intelligence with the forces as to be in high alert. And the third area that is in the low level now is Gaza about what's going so we are going inside towards the weekend Friday Saturday tense in another tense of 48 hours. Etan, Jonathan, stay with us. We've got much more to unpack right now. I want to go live to our Natasha Kirchuk. She is in Tel Aviv. Natasha, give us an idea of what people are saying right now a terrifying time in recent hours in Tel Aviv. So I actually have two young Israeli tourists who are here in Tel Aviv visiting from the north. Before we get to them, I just want to kind of show you what's happening behind us. We're on another street just a couple of blocks away from Dizengah. People are still out having drinks. Initially when I arrived here just about, I would say, five to 10 minutes after the attack, the street had emptied out. Now people are coming back in so you can see people are beginning to feel a little bit more comfortable being outside. They know what happened, but this is Israel, right? So I want to ask you Aviv, as a young Israeli, you guys are here visiting, you're deciding to go outside and enjoy the city and not stay in your hotel even though there was this attack. Why did you make that decision? Because we just can't let the terror win that situation. So what the terror attacks? It's like, it's really terrible. I heard that the terrorists got killed, which is like... It was like, it came to fill us. So far, it's definitely... It's definitely better to stay alive. I mean, I really think it's terrible for the situation. All the protests are against the government right now. The government right now is on the right side. So I think it's like a conflict between the people inside. So you feel like this... I mean, this attack was allegedly carried out by a terrorist. We're here in Hamas, applaud the attack, potentially even take responsibility, but obviously there's been a lot going on in Israel with the protests all day long. How do you feel about living in this country right now as a young person? I mean, right now, it's not like the safe space to live because it's like... The army is really involved in the respect of the government. Like... I don't know, it's really confusing right now. You don't really feel safe. Israel is really warring. You should feel safe in your country and you should feel protected. So something like this is really traumatizing for some people, even the terrorists inside here. But where is it? We can't let it go. Absolutely. And that's really the message that I've been hearing from a lot of the locals that I've been speaking to tonight. When I asked them, what made you decide to stay out on the street? They say, sadly, this is something we're used to. There was one who told me we all are dealing with some form of post-traumatic stress disorder. That's part of life here, but you're not going to leave. This is what it is. We're going to go out and we're just going to try to live our lives to the fullest. But again, obviously a very terrifying night in Tel Aviv. One that is unfortunately repeated. We've seen this happen several times over on Dismogh Street. Several terrorist attacks on that main boulevard on weekend nights when people are getting ready to enjoy their lives and have drinks with their friends. So it isn't definitely a sad night tonight, but there is a positive side to that and it is that people say that they're going to keep on going out and trying to live their best life. Certainly hitting at the heart of Tel Aviv on Natasha Kerchuk live from Tel Aviv. Thank you for that update. We'll be coming back to Natasha later on in this breaking news broadcast. Now still with me in studio. I want to bring in our defense correspondent, Jonathan Reggae of the shooting in the heart of Tel Aviv. We can see the teens on the scene right now. Tensions high in the country for a range of reasons. Give us some context as to what is happening right now in this part of the world. About 14 hours before this happened, there was an IDF raid in the village of Jabba in the West Bank killing a terrorist squad of three Palestinians in their car. There were explosives. There was ammunition. Clearly there was an imminent attack which was thwarted with that operation in Jabba. Two days earlier on Tuesday an operation, an Israeli operation in Janine, killing again another squad which was possibly preparing an attack and even more important, the terrorists which killed two Israelis in Hawara less than two weeks ago. There's an operation in Jericho. There's an operation in Nablus. Everything happening just in the past week and the Palestinians of course always trying the Palestinian factions always trying to retaliate. We hardly report about this anymore but there are shooting attacks or stone throwing in the roads of the West Bank that's a daily occurrence. It is happening all the time and now we see an attack in Tel Aviv of course we cannot determine this yet 100% but the motive seems to be nationalistic, there seems to be some kind of a Palestinian behind this attack. So yes, there's a constant operation by the IDF after night in the West Bank we have to say it is a very successful operation targeting terror activists practically every night but there is no such thing as 100% success. It was exactly a year ago when Israel suffered four terror attacks in the space of a month in Bersheba and Chadera, Tel Aviv and Ibraq then there was another attack in the city of El-Ad all of them in Israel proper but the last attack, the one in El-Ad happened on Independence Day in early May it's been 10 months since and ever since then we've seen very, very little terror activity in Israel proper if I remember correctly the only terror that we saw within the borders of Israel, I'm saying Israel proper not the West Bank, that was a bombing attack in two separate bus stops in Jerusalem in November other than that in Israel proper and the Israeli security forces have been able to thwart all of the hundreds and hundreds of alerts that came but there's no such thing as 100% success as always the possibility of one terrorist two terrorists infiltrating and this apparently is what seems to have happened tonight in Tel Aviv we're speaking of three people injured is a terrorist one of those three not exactly clear who is a terrorist not exactly clear where did he come from not exactly clear many questions let's remember this happened roughly a little more than an hour ago so still many, many questions and we're still waiting for answers many details still emerging and we will be going live to the scene shortly our team of reporters is in Tel Aviv but I want to bring you in a time because although there has been no official claim of responsibility the Hamas terror group speaking out a short while ago saying this is the initial and I repeat initial response to the crimes that Israel is committing in the West Bank specifically in Jenin with the new face of the terror that we are facing in the last month we don't need official taking responsibility they will not do it but we know exactly the kind of mechanism Hamas is standing above all with the incitement he's trying to push with a very clear strategy the strategic of Hamas is stay strong in Gaza not create escalation in Gaza not damage themselves trying in two ways one to weakness the PA Palestinian authorities in the West Bank Abu Mazen secondly as more as they can take bloodshed and to create bloodshed in Israel by individuals concerning what happened the last occasion the last two occasions one of them when we succeed to put and to put the ends on this murderer that killed the two brothers in Chawara he was belonging to Hamas to this morning in Juba it was people from Jihad Islamic so we don't have to look exactly to make it like a tailor made it's important to know it but the question now today whether Israel will put Hamas as the high responsibility and will translate it to such kind of activities towards those kind of leadership of Hamas of the people who are really creating this kind of top incitement so in my eyes Hamas is responsible to what happened this night Thursday evening in Tel Aviv in Disney Golf not as the first time and for me it's something that I estimate that we can that can come concerning what happened in Janil in the 7th of March stay with us we've got lots more to discuss right now as I promised we are going to the scene we cross to our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran he is in Tel Aviv and Ariel the shooting in a popular part of Tel Aviv on what is usually a very busy night Thursday night what details are known this hour what are you seeing and what are you hearing right beneath us as you can see behind me large amounts of forces here police forces from all different units because following the shooting there is still suspicion that there is an additional suspect that is still at large and all these forces are searching the area trying to find him that's why a lot of these side streets are cordoned off but I'm here with Imbal who was sitting in a bar right nearby here in fact a bar that was targeted and last year's terror attack here in Dizygof I'm going to talk to Imbal and then I'll translate simultaneously so Imbal how do you describe this what is going on in your head so all of these are really old people started shooting in Ilka I sat with a friend we talked a lot after they started shooting for a minute Ilka was dead they said it was an accident we thought it was an accident so she was sitting here at the Ilka bar with a friend of hers and she didn't hear the shooting but that they saw a mass of people running fleeing trying to understand what's going on at first they thought that it might be fireworks that were going on but very quickly they realized that there was something dangerous going on here so people started shooting and Ilka was dead they said there were shooting we heard the sound of the shooting and then we started shooting we saw a lot of people shooting towards Ben-Gurion we said maybe it wasn't shooting and it was shooting we didn't understand what was going on if it was something that someone heard and started shooting of course when we left the house we realized that it was a shooting we really had two shots from here so she's saying that within moments the Ilka bar again the same bar that was targeted and attacked last year people fled the scene immediately it was immediately emptied and then they fled to their home nearby or they lived nearby and they took cover and that's when they heard the second round of gunshots those were the gunshots that ended up neutralizing the terrorist who was killed by police forces I don't know if she's trying to get home but all these side streets are cordoned off I will ask her just one last question did you know that there was a shooting during the time that there was a shooting that took place that day I'm asking her that she was in a in a bar that was targeted last year in a terror attack also on a Thursday here she was at a bar again on a Thursday another terror attack I'm asking her how she feels about it how do you feel about it I don't know why I told my friend that I don't want to go to the bar even if it's outside all the time you feel that someone can see you all the time you feel that someone can see you I didn't want to go to the bar my friend told me to go to the bar everything will be fine so what do we do now we said that we don't want to go to the bar outside in other places it's really hard to stay here you feel all the time that something can happen thank you very much and good bye thank you she said that ever since last year's attack she is concerned she's worried about sitting in bars in Tel Aviv in Dizingof one of the main streets of recreation of bars here in Tel Aviv you can sit here maybe because when you sit on bars here outside you sit on the curbside sometimes with the back to the street and she said she was concerned about that and her concerns were proven through unfortunately today she says moving forward she is legitimately concerned of sitting here in Dizingof just given the fact that it's so open there are potential dangers that look around the corner certainly a terrifying time for people in Tel Aviv at the time and as you say Ariel and can you to think that that is the same scene we were discussing last time there was a shooting in Tel Aviv a busy time on a Thursday night once again Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran live from Tel Aviv we'll be coming back to you for more updates thank you for now and still in studio I'm Tung Tung Gatformer military secretary to three ministers of defense and senior research fellow at the Meriam Institute and our defense correspondent Jonathan Rege for updates and Jonathan I'm coming to you because more details are emerging about this gunman and as we were talking about just a little bit earlier there are concerns that there could be accomplices as well what more is known about the kind of search underway for people who might have helped him question is first where did that individual get there by himself or did anyone assist him in getting there second where did he get the gun of course when we constantly speak of lone wolf attacks they constantly involve a knife which anyone can take from the kitchen or a car which anyone can take from his parking lot but getting a gun and knowing how to use it that means there was some sort of preparation behind it someone assisted this man knowingly or not someone assisted this man with organizing this attack who is this man who perhaps helped him did anyone drive him to the scene as it seems the police is now coming to the conclusion that this incident is over still looking for other people who may have assisted this man once the identity is known and I think it will be quite fast exactly who is this person we will also understand where he came from did he cross from the West Bank if he crossed from the West Bank was he able to infiltrate into Israel that is does he have a permit to come into Israel did he come from another location Israel proper East Jerusalem there are constant reports coming up but no official information at this time so we have to wait for official confirmation from the Israeli security establishment before we assess more things to come up Eitan when we talk about Shabbat and intelligence agencies involved in exactly what Jonathan is describing right now in terms of the search for potential accountants as people who might have known what was being planned on this evening give us an idea of what is unfolding from an investigative point of view as we speak this is one of the main things first of all to look why we failed in order to identify him before and this is a question that will be will be asked by the internal security service and find out it depends who is the guy after looking about whether he had pre-information about him whether he go a permit to Israel if he came from the West Bank it can be that he is an extremist from extremist Israeli Arabs we know it from the past but the direction more or less looking towards the West Bank secondly it's very difficult in this kind of terror we are facing now we called it individual terror but it's a terrorist that are preparing as it was said I agreed a lot that they prepare themselves with arms, with training he cross the street and succeed to shoot two or three people during his crossing the street it's not something that easy to make it he escaped to a place while he was around but the intelligence here is a lot of importance first of all to bring immediate details to find out the sources of his activities to find out whether we had the fault here in identification whether we have a pre-evidence to what he is trying to do to which organization he belong and above it now who are the other that can be like a candidate a thinking bomb that can come to make such a thing also stay with us we've got more to discuss right now I want to bring in Orgoren he is the head of the operation room at the Tel Aviv Medical Center Or thank you for joining us we know that three people were shot and wounded give us an idea of how they are doing what can you confirm right now for us good evening to the trauma center in the Tel Aviv Medical Center arrived five injured three of them were from gunshot wounds and two of them are stressed the three wounded from gunshot wounds one of them has light wounds light superficial wounds he is fine two of them were severely wounded one of them was arrived while resuscitating by the EMS we have stabilized them in the trauma room and he is now being operated in order to save his life and the other one he is conscious and he is stable but he is also severely wounded and we have decided to operate him and he has been operated in these minutes in order to stabilize his condition Orgoren thank you so much for that update we will be coming back to you to keep tabs on their progress and obviously everybody hoping for a speedy recovery for those who are facing medical treatment right now thank you Orgoren from the Tel Aviv Medical Center the head of the operation room and right now I want to go to our defense correspondent Jonathan Regev because you've got an update yes reports are surfacing in Israeli media not official we have to say nothing official at this time but reports are circulating with the name of the terrorist a 23 year old Palestinian if these reports are correct then we might be speaking of sort of a failure when it comes to Israeli security services why so because if I'm saying again if this is really the man then this is a man who already set twice in Israeli jails this is a man with connection to Hamas in the West Bank I'm saying again we have to be careful with these kind of reports are circulating in Israeli media saying this is a man who is connected to Hamas who set twice in Israeli jails therefore how did it get into Israel was he staying here illegally did he cross the checkpoints once they were opened on Wednesday afternoon many questions there these are very initial reports but this seems to be the case that there's something perhaps that these Israeli services missed just to continue with the if of course but I believe it's going towards the direction of the evidence concerning this terrorist what I think it's connecting him to Hamas he was belong to Hamas he was in jail in Hamas it has something to close the circle with the terrorist who killed the two brothers in Hawara that also was in the jail and was released I think three years ago so it's something that bring the Israeli authorities I think the cabinet to think about the reaction towards Hamas it's coming to the time to be close to say whether you are going towards the head quarter of Hamas and put the ends of those who are bringing for many month the present incitement who are looking for this kind of strategic whether it's the time or not we are closing to Ramadan two weeks before the Ramadan there will be kind of discussion but Hamas is on the target now from my point of view stay with us we're going to discuss more on exactly that if you are just joining us now this is breaking news edition a terror attack in Tel Aviv three people have been shot and wounded in the city center at the intersection of the well-known Dizengov and Ben Gurion streets shortly before 9pm local time in a bustling part of the city you are looking at live images on your screen right now you can see police and paramedics on the scene Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Kuldai confirming the shooting is being treated as a terror attack one gunman has been neutralized the wounded are in their 20s they've been rushed to Ikhilab hospital and as we heard just a short while ago one is likely wounded the other two are being treated let's take a listen to this account from witnesses in Tel Aviv I'm lying down in a lot of blood I go straight to the police car and then everybody says they see somebody with gun they shoot, they try to shoot everyone and we try to reach him we were in St. Vesa in St. Vesa we were really close by just across the street we heard it really really close at first I didn't want to believe it but we understood very fast that it was gunshots and everybody was just like running really fast I did my leg and it was really scary the worst experience of my life and I hope nobody has to go to that ever again terrifying accounts from Tel Aviv just a short while ago I want to bring our Jonathan Regev our defence correspondent back in for more details about what is known Jonathan about how this gunman was shot and who exactly did shoot him tell us more the shooting took place at the Dizingov street in Central Tel Aviv then the gunman the terrorist ran away into one of the little alleyway over there and basically residents of the area who are now off on their time off but there are people from special forces in the Israeli army, the Israeli police they heard the shots, they immediately ran down to the street, they found out that little alleyway where the terrorist was hiding and as soon as he ran towards them they shot him and neutralized him this is what we're understanding again the information regarding his identity not official yet but it seems as if this is a man this is a a man who had connections with Hamas who sat in who was in jail at least twice before and even posted videos from a coffee place in Tel Aviv just two or three hours before the attack took place once his identity will be verified of course many questions will be asked as to why a man with connections to Hamas why did a man who spent time in Israeli jails was able to walk around freely in the streets of Tel Aviv and the irony that just a few hours ago Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from the United States here at Ben Gurion Airport calling for a calming of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians ahead of Passover and Ramadan Etan we've been discussing for the build up to Ramadan about the security concerns and what might transpire we are hearing Hamas saying this is just an initial reaction although I need to reiterate they are not claiming responsibility as such but certainly praise coming out also from the popular front tell us more I can tell you that in my opinion Hamas has no contact to what happened there is no now any kind of tense that go up or increase the situation it's coming because of IDF success activities in the West Bank in succeeding to prevent some of the terror activities by entering and killing or arresting this kind of thinking bomb Hamas is trying to respond and the response from the past is even I don't know whether it ended with this kind of attack they will try to do more I mean more I mean don't mean even the Hamas also other kind of individual terrorists but when we are coming towards the Ramadan from my experience you have especially to a incident of high tense the beginning of the Ramadan and the third of Ramadan towards the end of it the emotions the religious emotions the excitement is rising up and it means that in this kind Israel we have to sit and to together with the PA with the others to see how they are going trying to reduce this kind of tense and don't sure it will help and this kind of activities it's coming from the street from the people from the individual terror so can be situation that we will find out with some measures taken by Israel in order to reduce this kind of let's say succeed to prevent this kind of terrorism before start the Ramadan and we can see a new policy from Israel towards the coming Ramadan. Let's go back to Tel Aviv and check in again with our Middle East correspondent Ariel Oceran Ariel what update have you got right now? Right Benny so two main updates according to the police the incident here is over there have ruled out the suspicion that there are additional suspects at large given that the terrorists who carried out the shooting right after fled to one of the buildings and he was neutralized after leaving the entrance of one of the buildings so that's one and the second we have information as to the identity of the suspect the 23-year-old Palestinian from the Palestinian village of Nailin that is in the West Bank now he has ties to Hamas in fact his father is the head of the local Hamas branch of the village that is what we can update new now but I'm joined here by Dean Elzdan he is the police spokesperson for international media Dean thank you very much for your time what what more can we can we say about the incident that happened and also what the police how it's assessing the situation moving forward from now okay so I'll set the record straight with a little bit of background in the heart of Tel Aviv in the middle of the evening while civilians are enjoying their dinner a 23-year-old Palestinian terrorists from the Judea and Samaria territories approach this restaurant opens fire on these civilians injuring three of them one's in critical one is in severe and one is in fair condition the terrorists then began running down dishingolf street he was then engaged by two police officers one of them was on duty the other one off duty they managed to neutralize this terrorist killing him on the spot and that goes towards the ongoing situational assessments that the Israel police are doing in order to provide safety for the public they will not allow terrorists to determine the public's safety they prevented a much larger terror attack from taking place now today's attack took place on the same day where Tel Aviv was packed with thousands of protesters from all over the country what challenge does that pose for the police when trying to kind of balance different kinds of challenges on the one end safety of the public and trying to prevent disruptions but also keeping the safety of the public from terror attacks how can the is the police adequately prepared for these tasks are they not perhaps spread maybe a little too thin I think that this event as unfortunate as it is goes to show just how professional the Israel police is it's a national police force that covers counter-terror, counter-crime and also serving the public and so today when a protest are taking place the police are addressing it and the second a terrorist attack took place there was Israel police right there on the spot to neutralize him to prevent a much more heinous and unfortunate terror attack from taking place you know Dean we spoke to earlier with Imbala a woman who lives right here she was in fact at sitting at a bar that was targeted last year in a terror attack and I mean you were standing nearby you heard what she was saying and she was basically saying that she's scared as an Israeli living in Tel Aviv to sit out on a Thursday in a bar in Dizengov perhaps main street bars in Tel Aviv just because of the past and unfortunately the present what do you have to say what can the police say to people like Imbala and others who are fearful of going out on these days I will tell her I will tell all the tourists that come to visit all the residents and civilians of Israel that the top priority of the Israel police is their safety it doesn't matter what goes on through the day the second that there's a suspicion of a terror attack they're working around in order to keep the civilians safe the terror attacks that we see or hear about they're dropping the bucket compared to the amount of terror attacks that the Israel police is stopping and thwarting every single day around the clock D&L's done international spokesperson for the Israeli police thank you very much for your time thank you and keep on with a good word thank you so as you heard from Dean there's a lot of challenges for the Israeli police currently and as we're speaking this is another suspected infiltration to a West Bank settlement of Modin Elite that is under the responsibility of the military and so they're engaged they're looking into that now so indeed a lot going on tonight here in Tel Aviv and elsewhere as far as this incident here in Tel Aviv is concerned according to the police it is done there are no additional suspects at large and the terrorists that carried out the attack the 23 year old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Nalien he was neutralized and killed by police staggering to think that this 23 year old Palestinian had as reports suggest been in jail for past terror attacks of course we will be looking into