Gunmen Kill Four at Tel Aviv Market

6/9/16
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
6/8/16:

Israel Revokes Ramadan Permits for Palestinians After Tel Aviv Attack.

Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire Wednesday at a popular food market in central Tel Aviv, killing four people and wounding five others in what Israeli police said appeared to be a terror attack.

Victims shot at popular food market; Israeli police say shooting appeared to be a terror attack.

The attackers were family members in their 20s from the Hebron region of the occupied West Bank, police said. One was arrested and the other was rushed to the hospital after being shot and​subdued by police.

One attacker sat in a cafe at the high-end Sarona Market before standing up and shooting at other customers, according to witnesses. The assault came on a warm summer night at about 9 p.m.

“He got up, he had a rifle in his hand and he was just shooting point-blank at people [who were] sitting down,” said one witness, Avraham Liber, according to a video distributed by nonprofit group the Israel Project.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned as scheduled from a trip to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin and called an immediate meeting of his security cabinet, according to his official Twitter feed.

The shootings are the latest in wave of violent attacks by Palestinians targeting Israelis over the past nine months.

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