In a car-ramming attack on Friday night in Tel Aviv, Israel, a tourist from Italy was killed and seven others were hurt.
The Tel Aviv boardwalk’s bike path was entered by a car, according to Israeli police, which then struck pedestrians before flipping over on a grass.
The driver was shot by police after they got at the scene and saw him reaching for what appeared to be a rifle-like weapon that was with him, according to Israeli police.
Israeli and Italian police have identified the victim of the attack as Alessandro Parini.
He was a 35-year-old lawyer, according to Italian media.
In a tweet posted Friday, Italy’s Prime Minister Georgia Meloni expressed “deep condolences for the death of one of our compatriots, Alessandro Parini, in the terrorist attack that took place in the evening in Tel Aviv,” and condemned the “cowardly attack that hit him.”
Three of the seven people injured in the attack are still in hospital as of Saturday morning local time, according to Ichilov Medical Center. All of those killed or injured in the attack were tourists.
Police said that the car was driven by a 45-year-old resident of Kfar Kasem, an Arab-Israeli city east of Tel Aviv.
Israeli authorities described the incident as a “terror attack.”
The attack occurred after Israel struck Palestinian militant targets in southern Lebanon and Gaza, amid days of tensions in the region following police raids on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The leader of the United Arab List and Knesset Member Mansour Abbas rejected any “use of violence against any citizen.”
“Especially in these difficult times, it’s important for me to emphasize… this is not the way of the Arab community and Arab citizens in Israel,” Abbas said Saturday.