Two people were killed and at least 15 wounded in a shooting at a Tel Aviv bar

TEL AVIV, Israel – Two people were killed and at least 15 others injured in a shooting at a bar in Tel Aviv Thursday night, authorities said.

One of the suspects is believed to have opened fire at the bar shortly after 9pm and has not yet been taken into custody, according to Tel Aviv police. The bar was located in a busy restaurant and nightlife area in the center of Tel Aviv.

Israel’s National Emergency Services, Magen David Adom, transported two men to Ichilov Hospital where they were pronounced dead.

A forensic expert investigates the scene of a shooting on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv on April 7, 2022.Jacques Guise/AFP – Getty Images

Three others – a 20-year-old man, a 28-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man – were taken to Ichilov Hospital with gunshot wounds in serious condition.

Two people were taken to Wolfson Hospital with non-shot wounds, according to Magen David Adom.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was monitoring the situation from the Israeli military headquarters, also located in downtown Tel Aviv.

Details of how the shooting occurred or the suspect’s likely motive were not immediately clear.

Police said there were “indications” that it was a terrorist attack – the fourth deadly attack in Israel in less than three weeks at a time of heightened tension between Israelis and Palestinians. The Hamas terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip, praised the attack but did not claim responsibility.

On March 29, a 27-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank systematically murdered people in the city of Bnei Brak, killing five. Two days earlier, a shooting attack by two Islamic State sympathizers in Hadera killed two police officers.

The previous week, an ISIS sympathizer killed four people in a ramming and stabbing attack in the southern city of Beersheba. The Hadera and Beersheba attacks were carried out by Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Paul Goldman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Doha Madani reported from New York City.

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