On Friday morning, Israeli police launched a search operation after three people were killed in an attack near Tel Aviv, Greece, on the anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state.

Police asked residents to provide information about the hidden attackers and published a photo of me and the names of two Palestinians suspected of the attack, which also injured four people, three of whom are in critical condition. By the Magen David Adom Society, the equivalent of the Israeli Red Cross.

He said the two Palestinians were Asaad Youssef al-Rifai, 19, and Subhi Imad Abu Shukair, 20, in the occupied West Bank city of Ruman in Jenin province.

“The location of the attack was difficult,” said Alon Rezkan, a paramedic with the organization, who said he saw a man in his 40s dead near a bypass and another unconscious in a nearby park before his death was announced. And a third man beside him died of his wounds.

And this is the sixth attack on Israel since March 22 in Greece (center), a city of about fifty thousand people, including a large number of ultra-Orthodox Jews located near Tel Aviv.

Palestinian militant Islamic Jihad and the Hamas movement said they “blessed” the “heroic” attack and saw it as a “response” to recent tensions in Jerusalem without its acceptance.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the “murder of Israeli civilians” and stressed that “the murder of Palestinian and Israeli civilians only exacerbates the situation at a time when we are all trying to achieve stability and avoid escalation.”

Abbas warned of “using this doomed incident to carry out attacks and reactions against our Palestinian people by settlers and others” and reiterated “the ongoing attacks against our people and their Islamic and Christian saints, which have created tensions and instability”. “

“We are looking for a terrorist or two,” said Avi Beaton, head of Israel’s Central Police in Greece.

Israeli Defense Minister Ben Gants announced on Sunday the closure of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent terrorists from fleeing these Palestinian territories.

This increased the number of people killed in attacks against Israel from March 22-18. Some of the attacks were carried out by Israeli Arabs, while the rest were carried out by Palestinians.

After the first attacks, Israeli forces launched a series of operations in the occupied West Bank. At least 26 Palestinians have been killed since the wave of attacks on Israel began, including several perpetrators.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken “strongly” condemned the attack. “The horrific attack targets and infuriates innocent men and women as Israel celebrates Independence Day,” he said in a statement released by the US State Department.

He stressed that the United States “strongly” supports Israel’s allies.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the United States was “scared” by the attack. “As always, we stand with Israel in the face of this terrorist threat,” he added.

– Tensions in Jerusalem –

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said: “This operation is part of our people’s outrage at the occupation attacks on holy sites”, stressing that “the attack on the Al-Aqsa mosque cannot go unpunished”.

In turn, Muhammad Hamid (Abu al-Hassan), a member of the political office of the Islamic Jihad movement, said that the “heroic operation” in al-Aad “has come as a victory for the Al-Aqsa mosque”.

He added that “insulting the occupation army and refugee gangs is a declaration of war against the Palestinian people and the violation of all borders”, adding that “our people will continue with the occupation and their aggression”.

Meanwhile, clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians left around 300 wounded in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem, which Israel has occupied since 1967.

After a break of a few days in connection with the end of the month of Ramadan, Jewish worshipers marched into the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday, the 74th anniversary of Israel’s founding, according to the Jewish calendar. On the Muslim holiday of Id al-Fitr.

By default, non-Muslims can visit the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the first of the two qiblas and the third of the two holy mosques, on what Jews call the “Temple Mount”, but without it. Penalty execution.

A growing number of Jews gather there and some of them pray in secret, raising fears that the status quo will be questioned.

In recent weeks, the Israeli government has repeatedly stated that it does not want to change the status quo.

Israel, which controls access to the site, continued to open it to Jews on Thursday, despite calls from Palestinian officials and countries in the region that fear further clashes.