This liveblog is now closed; further details can be found here. 4:44pm “Tel Aviv” is trending on Twitter as social media users share photos, videos and news of the attack. 4:40pm The death toll has risen to four, according to media reports. 4:34pm DRAMATIC FOOTAGE: First moments after terrorist opens fire in Tel Aviv restaurant…
JERUSALEM — A dual Israel-American citizen killed in a West Bank supermarket terror attack was one of three Israeli soldiers honored by the Israel Defense Forces for bravery. Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, along with Sgt. Lihi Malka and Matan Shamir, was cited for thwarting a terror attack, the IDF announced Tuesday. The awards were approved…
Italian police issued arrest warrants on Thursday for six people suspected of conspiring to join Islamic State, and court documents said three of them had been discussing possible attacks on the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome. Four of the suspects – a couple living near Lake Como, a 23-year-old-man and a woman, all…
Israel is closing off the West Bank for the start of Passover amid fears of further terrorist attacks after a bus bombing in Jerusalem that wounded 20. The closure will begin Thursday night and last through Saturday night. Israel has “warnings, although not concrete” about terrorist attacks planned for the coming days, Israel’s Channel 10 reported,…
JERUSALEM — Hamas said that a man who succumbed to wounds suffered in Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem was the terrorist who placed a bomb in the vehicle. On Wednesday, the terrorist group claimed in a statement that the bomber was a 19-year-old Palestinian from the al-Ayda refugee camp outside of Bethlehem, reported. His name…
An Israeli tech company named “Cellebrite” is reportedly helping the FBI hack into the iPhone of San Bernadino mass killer Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple has refused to help the feds unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to Farook, who killed 14 people. IPhone data gets wiped after multiple failed logins. Apple contends that writing the program…
BRUSSELS – Islamic State claimed has responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital that killed at least 34 people. Police issued a wanted notice for a young man in a hat who was caught on CCTV pushing a laden luggage trolley at Zaventem airport alongside…
The images out of Belgium in the aftermath of Tuesday’s have become all too familiar. And once more, from Paris to New York, London, and Tel Aviv, we’re all that much more on edge. Here are 10 images from the photographers at Getty that reveal the deadly drama of the day.
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