A truck crashed into a bus stop near Tel Aviv, injuring dozens, and strikes in Gaza killed at least 22 people

Dozens of people were injured after a truck crashed into a nearby bus stop Tel Aviv on Sunday, when 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 vehicles. According to rescue services, about 35 people were injured.

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

The circumstances of the crash remain unknown; however, Asi Aharoni, an Israeli police spokesman, 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 determine the person’s identity.

The Israeli rescue service Magen David Adom reported that the condition of the six injured was serious.

Ronit Glaser and Magen David Adom said in: video shared on X that they received a call about a “mass incident” near Glilot Junction. She described a chaotic scene as paramedics helped the injured and took them to hospital.

Over the years, Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbings, shootings and car-ramming attacks. Tensions have escalated since the outbreak of the Gaza war, with Israel carrying out regular military raids on the occupied West Bank, killing hundreds of people. Most of them were militants killed in shootouts with Israeli forces, but Palestinians taking part in violent protests and civilians were also killed.

Israeli attacks on Gaza

The latest Israeli attacks are underway northern Gaza killed at least 22 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, as Israel’s offensive in the hard-hit and isolated north entered its third week and aid groups described a humanitarian catastrophe. Israel said its targets were militants.

Gaza Health Ministry emergency services said 11 women and two children were among the 22 people killed in Saturday’s attacks on several houses and buildings in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya. It said another 15 people were injured and the death toll could rise. It listed the names of the murdered, most of whom came from three families.

The Israeli military said it carried out a precision attack on militants at a facility in Beit Lahiya and took steps to avoid harming civilians. She disputed what she described as “the numbers published by the media” without elaborating or presenting evidence in her favor.

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

According to the local Ministry of Health, more than 42,000 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli retaliatory offensive. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its numbers, but says more than half of those killed were women and children. Israel claims it has killed more than 17,000 fighters, without providing evidence.

Israel is also fighting Hezbollah Lebanonwhere Israel launched a ground invasion earlier this month after nearly a year of lower-level conflict. The Hezbollah militant group, which serves as a proxy for Hamas and Iran, began firing rockets at Israel after the October 7, 2023 attack.

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