Emergency services near the site of a shooting by gunmen at a light rail station in Tel Aviv,Israel.Credit:Getty Images
Israel has been on high alert for months as the war in Gaza approaches its first anniversary and the escalating conflict in Lebanon appeared set to draw in Iran.
Footage broadcast by Israeli television channels showed the two gunmen getting off the train and opening fire on people on the platform. As well as the six dead,at least nine people were wounded with varying degrees of injuries,police said.
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Medics and paramedics provided on-site treatment to a number of wounded people with varying degrees of injuries,including some who were unconscious,the MDA ambulance service said.
Only minutes after the attack,warning sirens sent Israelis rushing to air raid shelters as Iran fired a barrage of missiles to avenge the killing by Israel of some prominent leaders of its so-calledAxis of Resistance alliance.
Israel’s hardline Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich,who has responsibility for significant policy areas concerning the occupied West Bank,said the attackers came from the West Bank city of Hebron.