Netanyahu orders police, army reserves mobilisation after recent incidents

The latest flare-up in tensions comes during what is both the Jewish Passover and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Earlier on April 7, two British-Israeli sisters aged 16 and 20 were killed, and their mother seriously wounded in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank.

Israel's army said it had launched a manhunt for the perpetrators.

Later, in central Tel Aviv, one man was killed and seven people aged between 17 and 74 wounded when a car rammed into people walking on a cycling path along the seafront and flipped over, Israeli rescue services and police said.

"All the victims were tourists," the Magen David Adom emergency service said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni identified the deceased as 36-year-old Alessandro Parini.

The Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv said it had received three injured Britons and one wounded Italian.

A police spokesman told AFP that "the terrorist was neutralised, it was a terror attack against civilians, a car ramming attack".

Shortly afterwards, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "instructed the Israel Police to mobilise all reserve border police units and has directed the IDF to mobilise additional forces", his office said.

Oded Revivi, mayor of the illegal settlement of Efrat, confirmed that the dead in the West Bank shooting were Israeli sisters aged 16 and 20 and that the wounded woman was their mother.

A British diplomat later confirmed that the two also held UK passports, while calling for "all parties... to de-escalate tensions".