An Italian tourist is killed in Israel, Italy's prime minister: Coward attack.

Italy's foreign minister said Israel had identified the man killed as Italian national Alessandro Parini, 36.

One doctor told Israeli television that the wounded included three British and another Italian citizens. Image from the scene showed a car near a mall and an Israeli police officer opening fire. Local police said the alleged attacker was shot dead by officers. Police have named him Yousef Abu Jaber by Kafr Qasim, an Israeli-Arab town, writes BBC, broadcast Express.

The attack came after two British-American sisters were killed and their mother was wounded in a shooting on the West Coast, earlier Friday.

Police at Tel Aviv said at 21:25 local time that a 45-year-old man led a Kia car along the town's beach mall, hitting several pedestrians before being overthrown on the lawn of the Charles Croll Garden.

They said a police officer at a nearby gas station heard the noise and, after running at the scene, saw the car driver “trying to capture” and then “neutralised it. “. The Israeli ambulance service said that, except for the suspected author, there were a total of eight victims from the attack and that they were all tourists.

Of the wounded, three suffered average injuries and four suffered only minor injuries, he said.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Melon expressed its deep “recovery for Parin's death and described the attack as <x2frifty”). Parin has worked as a lawyer in Rome, Italian media reports.

After the incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah mobilized police and army reserveers as part of “efforts to combat terrorism”. Netanyah has also visited the shooting site in the West Coast.