Hamas and Islamic Jihad resistance groups claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb blast in Tel Aviv, vowing to stage more attacks against the Zionist entity.
In a statement, Hamas’s armed wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, said it had jointly carried out with Al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing, the Tel Aviv attack.
Al-Qassam Brigades warned of “more retaliatory attacks” in the occupied territories, as long as the Israeli occupation continues its policy of massacre, assassination and displacement of Palestinians.
Earlier, Israeli occupation police said they were “99%” sure that the deadly bomb blast in Tel Aviv was an attempted attack.
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Israeli police informed Maariv that the explosion was caused by an explosive device.
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Ayalon District Police Commander Haim Bublil made the claim on Monday regarding the explosion that killed a man, in his 50s, and moderately injured a passerby on an electric scooter.
The man was carrying a bomb in a bag on his back while walking down Lehi Road in southern Tel Aviv when it went off.
Bublil told Israeli Kan Radio that the assailant may have “planned to go to a synagogue nearby or maybe a shopping center. We can’t understand yet why it exploded at that point.”
Source: Agencies
