A Greek national resident of Jerusalem is among the seven victims of yesterday’s terrorist attack in the Jaffa area of ​​Tel Aviv, as stated in a statement by the State Department.

The statement reads: “We strongly condemn yesterday’s terrorist attack in the Jaffa area of ​​Tel Aviv. We announce with deep sadness that among the victims of the attack is a Greek citizen, a resident of Jerusalem. We express our sincere condolences to the family and relatives of the victim.”

According to information, this is the 26-year-old Greek, Iona Karousis, a resident of Jerusalem. The same information states that the 26-year-old was an architecture student, with a well-known neurosurgeon father, while his family originates from Thessaloniki.

His parents moved to Israel in 1988. His father completed his PhD at the Hebrew University and at the same time his clinical specialization in Neurology at the Hadassah University Hospital, where he has been a senior Consulting Neurologist since 1995. In 2003 he became a Professor at the Hebrew University (the largest and most famous in Israel), while since 2007 he has been the Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center.

At the moment it is not known when the funeral will take place.

Seven dead in total

According to him latest Israeli police reportthe victims of the armed attack of the two Palestinians rose to seven overnight after the death of one of the injured was announced.

Police had previously announced that six people had been killed and nine others injured.

Israeli media reported this morning that the dead include: Sahar Goldman, 30, Inbar Segev, 33, both Israelis, 40-year-old Moldovan-Israeli Nadia Sokolenko, 24-year-old Revital Bronstein and 42-year-old Ilia Nozadze .

The assault with an automatic weapon and a knife took place yesterday near the Sderot-Jerusalem metro station, in the Jaffa district, by “two terrorists”, who were “neutralized” by passers-by who used their personal weapons.

The two attackers opened fire on the train before getting off it and continuing to shoot on Jerusalem Avenue, police said.

One of the two attackers died on the spot and the other was injured and taken to a hospital in serious condition.

The two men were Palestinians originally from the occupied West Bank.