Israeli security forces hunted down and killed a Palestinian man early on Friday, hours after he opened fire in a crowded bar in central Tel Aviv, killing two people and wounding more than 10 others in an attack that caused scenes of mass panic in the city.
Police closed roads and ordered public transport to be shut down during the search for the man, who was later found hiding near a mosque in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, Israel's Shin Bet security agency said.
The attacker was killed during an exchange of fire, Shin Bet said.
Israeli public radio identified the alleged him as a man in his late 20s from Jenin refugee camp in the northern part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
“We succeeded this morning, in operational and intelligence co-operation, in closing a circle and eliminating the terrorist by exchange of fire,” police commissioner Maj Gen Yaakov Shabtai said.
The attacker entered a pub on a crowded main street of Tel Aviv late on Thursday and began shooting, killing two people and wounding more than 10 others, three of them seriously, before fleeing.
Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, which was treating eight of the wounded, said on Friday morning that one of the victims was “in critical condition, with an immediate risk to his life”.
The bar attack was the latest in a string of deadly street assaults that have left 13 dead and shaken Israel. A shooting last week in Bnei Brak city, near Tel Aviv, left five civilians dead.
Three fighters from Islamic Jihad, an armed Palestinian movement, were killed in exchanges of fire linked to these raids.
During the last week of March, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Libya's Gold
UN Panel of Experts found regime secretly sold a fifth of the country's gold reserves.
The panel’s 2017 report followed a trail to West Africa where large sums of cash and gold were hidden by Abdullah Al Senussi, Qaddafi’s former intelligence chief, in 2011.
Cases filled with cash that was said to amount to $560m in 100 dollar notes, that was kept by a group of Libyans in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
A second stash was said to have been held in Accra, Ghana, inside boxes at the local offices of an international human rights organisation based in France.
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