Truck crashes into bus stop near Tel Aviv, injuring dozens as strikes kill at least 22 people in Gaza Strip

Dozens of people were injured after a truck crashed into a bus stop near Tel Aviv on Sunday as Israelis returned to work after a week’s vacation.

A truck crashed into a bus stop in the city of Ramat Hasharon, northeast of Tel Aviv, leaving several people trapped under the cars. According to emergency services, about 35 people were injured.

The bus stop, located near the central highway junction, is close to the Israeli center. spy agency Mossad headquarters and military base.

The circumstances of the crash remain unknown; however, Asi Aharoni, an Israeli police spokeswoman, told reporters that authorities were treating it as a terrorist attack. He said the attacker had been “neutralized,” without saying whether the attacker was dead, and that police were working with Israel’s internal security agency to identify the man.

Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said six of the wounded were in serious condition.

Ronit Glazer and Magen David Adom stated in an interview video published on X that they received a report of a “mass casualty event” near the Glilot intersection. She described a chaotic scene as first responders treated the injured and rushed them to the hospital.

There have been numerous stabbings, shootings and car rammings by Palestinians over the years. Tensions have risen sharply since the start of the Gaza war as Israel carried out regular military raids into the occupied West Bank, leaving hundreds of people dead. Most appear to have been militants killed during gun battles with Israeli forces, but Palestinians taking part in violent protests and civilians have also been killed.

Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip

Latest Israeli strikes on north Gaza at least 22 people, mostly women and children, were killed, Palestinian officials said Sunday, as the Israeli offensive in the hard-hit and isolated north entered a third week and aid groups described a humanitarian catastrophe. Israel said it attacked the militants.

Gaza’s health ministry emergency service said 11 women and two children were among 22 killed when several houses and buildings were struck late Saturday in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya. The report said another 15 people were injured and that the death toll could rise. It lists the names of those killed, most of whom came from three families.

The Israeli military said it carried out a precision strike on militants inside a building in Beit Lahiya and took steps to avoid harming civilians. He disputed what he said were “figures published in the media” without elaborating or providing evidence in his favor.

The war has begun when Hamas-led militants cut holes in Israel’s border wall and entered southern Israel in a surprise attack on October 7, 2023. In this attack they killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped about 250. About 100 hostages are still in Gaza, about a third of them believed to be dead.

The Israeli retaliatory offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its tally, but says more than half of those killed were women and children. Israel says it has killed more than 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.

Israel is also at war with Hezbollah. Lebanonwhere Israel launched a ground invasion earlier this month after nearly a year of lower-level conflict. The militant group Hezbollah, a proxy of Hamas and Iran, began firing rockets at Israel following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

About 2,000 people were killed, including Hezbollah fighters and commanders, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, which did not say how many were Hezbollah fighters. Israel has accused Hezbollah of placing militants, command posts and weapons depots in civilian areas, without providing evidence.