11 Israelis Wounded by Palestinian Gunman in Tel AvivEleven Israelis, 10 of them soldiers, were shot and lightly wounded by a Palestinian gunman before a military compound on the Kaplan street in central Tel Aviv Sunday, a Tel Aviv police spokesman told Xinhua.The gunman, who failed to drive his car away from the scene, were shot and seriously wounded by Israeli soldiers and policemen, the spokesman said, adding that the gunman was under arrest now. However, unconfirmed reports said that the Palestinian has been killed. Israeli television Channel One reported that the gunman is indeed an Arab resident living in East Jerusalem's Arab neighborhood. According to the television reports, the man stopped the black car he was driving and got out to open with his M-16 rifle. He then got back into the car, but was unable to flee the scene due to heavy traffic. Later, Israeli soldiers and other security forces in the area returned fire on the vehicle. Israeli policemen have closed off the area, close to a major shopping center. The incident took place at a sensitive time as the cycle of violence between the two sides spiraled up again in recent days. Early Sunday morning, two Israeli helicopters shelled a Palestinian post near the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. An Israeli army spokesman claimed that the attack was in response to Palestinian mortar fire on an Israeli army base in the area Saturday night. The two sides have engaged in bloody clashes for more than 10 months, during which more than 670 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed. |
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