Israeli police said Wednesday they have found the body of a Palestinian man suspected of killing an 84-year-old Israeli woman after an overnight manhunt.
Police said the body of the man was found in Tel Aviv, hours after he is alleged to have struck and killed the woman in Holon, a suburb just south of the city.
Police said earlier they were searching for Musa Sarsour, 28, from the West Bank city of Qalqilya. They were treating the death as an attack with nationalist motives, police said.
The woman was found unconscious on the side of a road and Israeli media reported that security camera footage, which captured the attack, showed the woman being struck from behind with a heavy object.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who was at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, called the killing a “shocking attack by a despicable and cowardly terrorist.”
The attack comes as Israel continues daily arrest raids in the occupied West Bank that were prompted by a spate of deadly violence against Israelis in the spring.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been arrested since and some 90 have been killed, making this year the deadliest for Palestinians since 2016. Many of those killed have been militants, according to Israel, while others have been local youths killed while throwing stones or firebombs at Israeli troops.
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Palestinian suspected of killing Israeli woman found dead
- The body of the 28-year-old man was found in Tel Aviv
- Police were searching earlier for Musa Sarsour from the West Bank
Hezbollah says targeted Israeli bases, tanks after strikes on Lebanon
BEIRUT: Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Tuesday it targeted several Israeli military bases and tanks in response to Israeli strikes on the group’s strongholds in Lebanon, including the south Beirut suburbs.
Israel continues to carry out successive air raids, particularly on Beirut’s southern suburbs and the south of the country, after issuing evacuation warnings to residents, while Lebanese authorities on Monday recorded the displacement of more than 58,000 people from areas hit by the strikes.
Israel announced Tuesday morning it had begun a new round of “simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut.”
It announced later that day that it hit “approximately 60” targets “belonging to the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations.”
The Israeli military also said it had deployed troops to several locations in southern Lebanon in what it described as a “forward defense” measure along the border.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said he “authorized the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to advance and take control of additional strategic positions in Lebanon in order to prevent attacks on Israeli border communities.”
Lebanon was drawn into the regional war on Monday after an initial attack on Israel by Hezbollah, which said it wanted to “avenge” the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the US-Israeli strikes.
Israel promptly launched large-scale strikes on Lebanon, where the government on Monday declared an immediate ban on Hezbollah’s military activities.
In separate statements, Hezbollah on Tuesday claimed responsibility for 11 attacks on Israel, saying it targeted at least five Israeli tanks, three of them in Lebanese territory using guided missiles and “appropriate weapons.”
The group also said it used attack drones and rocket salvos to target several bases in northern Israel and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967.
Additionally, it claimed to have downed an Israeli drone over the southern city of Nabatiyeh.
These attacks came “in response to the criminal Israeli aggression on dozens of Lebanese cities and towns,” Hezbollah said.
Since the early morning hours, Beirut’s southern suburbs have been subjected to a series of air strikes targeting several buildings after evacuation warnings.
AFP photographers saw huge plumes of smoke rising into the air and obscuring the sky.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcaster said its Beirut headquarters had been targeted overnight and announced Tuesday morning that Israel targeted the offices of Hezbollah’s Al-Nour radio broadcaster as well.
In a statement, Hezbollah condemned the strikes on “two civilian media outlets” saying they were aimed at “silencing the voice and image of the resistance.”
The southern city of Sidon, largely spared during the last Hezbollah-Israel war, was struck twice on Tuesday.
One strike hit a headquarters belonging to Jamaa Islamiya, an Islamist group allied with Hamas and Hezbollah, and the other came after an evacuation warning elsewhere in the city.
The surroundings of Tyre, further south, were also struck after evacuation warnings.
Israel continues to carry out successive air raids, particularly on Beirut’s southern suburbs and the south of the country, after issuing evacuation warnings to residents, while Lebanese authorities on Monday recorded the displacement of more than 58,000 people from areas hit by the strikes.
Israel announced Tuesday morning it had begun a new round of “simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut.”
It announced later that day that it hit “approximately 60” targets “belonging to the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist organizations.”
The Israeli military also said it had deployed troops to several locations in southern Lebanon in what it described as a “forward defense” measure along the border.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said he “authorized the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to advance and take control of additional strategic positions in Lebanon in order to prevent attacks on Israeli border communities.”
Lebanon was drawn into the regional war on Monday after an initial attack on Israel by Hezbollah, which said it wanted to “avenge” the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the US-Israeli strikes.
Israel promptly launched large-scale strikes on Lebanon, where the government on Monday declared an immediate ban on Hezbollah’s military activities.
In separate statements, Hezbollah on Tuesday claimed responsibility for 11 attacks on Israel, saying it targeted at least five Israeli tanks, three of them in Lebanese territory using guided missiles and “appropriate weapons.”
The group also said it used attack drones and rocket salvos to target several bases in northern Israel and the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel since 1967.
Additionally, it claimed to have downed an Israeli drone over the southern city of Nabatiyeh.
These attacks came “in response to the criminal Israeli aggression on dozens of Lebanese cities and towns,” Hezbollah said.
Since the early morning hours, Beirut’s southern suburbs have been subjected to a series of air strikes targeting several buildings after evacuation warnings.
AFP photographers saw huge plumes of smoke rising into the air and obscuring the sky.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV broadcaster said its Beirut headquarters had been targeted overnight and announced Tuesday morning that Israel targeted the offices of Hezbollah’s Al-Nour radio broadcaster as well.
In a statement, Hezbollah condemned the strikes on “two civilian media outlets” saying they were aimed at “silencing the voice and image of the resistance.”
The southern city of Sidon, largely spared during the last Hezbollah-Israel war, was struck twice on Tuesday.
One strike hit a headquarters belonging to Jamaa Islamiya, an Islamist group allied with Hamas and Hezbollah, and the other came after an evacuation warning elsewhere in the city.
The surroundings of Tyre, further south, were also struck after evacuation warnings.
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