{West Bank and Gaza sealed off in response to Tel Aviv attack that killed four Israelis.}<\/p>\n
Four Israelis have been killed and several others injured in a shooting near Israel’s defence ministry and main army headquarters in Tel Aviv, police say.<\/p>\n
The incident happened on Wednesday night at the Sarona Market, an area with restaurants and cafes.<\/p>\n
At least five others were injured in the shooting and taken to the nearby Ichilov Hospital.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the attack, Israel has suspended entry permits for 83,000 Palestinians during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Israeli police initially said that there was only one attacker, but Meirav Lapidot, a spokesperson, later said two attackers had been captured after carrying out what appeared to be “a terrorist attack”.<\/p>\n
One of the shooters was taken in for questioning, and the other, who was injured, was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
{{Attackers in disguise}}<\/p>\n
Police said the attackers were two Palestinians from the same family from the town of Yatta, south of the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
Haaretz newspaper reported that the attackers were disguised as ultra-Orthodox Jews.<\/p>\n
Since October 2015, increased tensions in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel have boiled over into violence.<\/p>\n
In the first half year of 2016, Palestinian attacks have killed 32 Israelis and two visiting US citizens. Israeli forces have shot dead at least 196 Palestinians.<\/p>\n
Tensions over Jewish access to a volatile and contested Jerusalem holy site, revered by Muslims as Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and Jews as Temple Mount, have fuelled the violence.<\/p>\n
In a similar attack in Tel Aviv five months ago, a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship killed two people on a main shopping street and the driver of a taxi he used to flee the scene.<\/p>\n
The assailant was killed a week later in a shootout with police at a hideout in his home village in northern Israel.<\/p>\n
{{Ramadan permits halted}}<\/p>\n
The announcement of the suspension of entry permits for thousands of Palestinians during Ramadan was announced on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
“All permits for Ramadan, especially permits for family visits from Judea and Samaria to Israel, are frozen,” said a statement from COGAT, the unit which manages civilian affairs in the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n
It said that 83,000 Palestinians would be affected, adding that 200 residents of the Gaza Strip who had received permits to visit relatives during Ramadan would also have access frozen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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