The mobilization of police reserves and army reinforcements after the death of three people, including an Italian tourist, in two attacks, amid a new escalation of tensions in the Middle East, Israel announced on Friday.

At around 21:35 local time (and Greek time) a driver plowed his car into pedestrians on a bicycle path on Kaufman Avenue, a major coastal artery in Tel Aviv, before his vehicle overturned, killing a 36-year-old man, police said. .

In Rome, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed that it was Italian citizen Alessandro Parini and expressed her condolences to his family.

The attack also injured 7 people, aged between 17 and 74, according to Magen David Adom (“Star of David”), a similar service to the Red Cross. Among those being treated at Isilov Hospital in Tel Aviv are 4 tourists: 3 British and 1 Italian.

A police officer and members of municipal security who were nearby killed the driver when they realized he was trying to grab a gun, police said. He is a 45-year-old man from Kfar Kasem, an Arab city in the central part of Israel.

After the attack, which occurred during the week of Passover, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “ordered the Israeli police to mobilize all reserve units of the Border Guard and (in the army) to mobilize additional forces to deal with terrorist attacks.” , according to his office.

Earlier, two sisters from the Israeli settlement of Euphrates aged 16 and 20 respectively were killed and their mother seriously injured in an attack that took place in the West Bank.

The two sisters, who held Israeli and British citizenship, were victims of Palestinian fire at the car they were traveling in in the northeastern part of the Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967.

The US announced that it “stands by” Israel after these attacks. “Targeting innocent citizens of any nationality is unacceptable,” State Department spokesman Vedan Patel said in a statement.