The Israeli police reported Thursday of an attack on the raised car on a shelter in the center of Israel, where the first aid organization of Magen David Adom (MDA) announced that it had taken care of 8 injured near Kfar Yona.
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“The paramedics and rescuers of Magen David Adom provide medical care and transport to the hospitals Meir, Hillel Yaffe and Laniado eight wounded, including two young people in their twenties in an average state,” said MDA, Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross.
According to Aryeh Doron, a police spokesperson, a vehicle “struck several people and fled” at the crossroads of Beit Lid, 25 kilometers north of Tel Aviv, near the city of Kfar Yona.
Still according to the police, the vehicle was found in the same sector, but without its driver.
“The search for the suspect who fled continues. Police forces are carrying out research along the roads and in open areas, with the help of helicopters from the Israeli police air unit, patrol motorcycles and canine unit, “the police said.
An AFP photographer found that the police had placed a safety cord around a bus stop near Kfar Yona.
Violence increased in Israel and the occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza launched by the unprecedented attack on Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
In Israel, at least 32 people, whose soldiers have died in attacks perpetrated by Palestinians, according to Israeli official figures compiled by AFP.
In the West Bank, a territory occupied by Israel since 1967, at least 953 Palestinians, including many fighters, but also many civilians, were killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to an AFP count from data from the Palestinian authority.
And at the same time, at least 36 Israelis, including civilians and soldiers, were killed in Palestinian attacks or in Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli data.