Israeli officials confirmed on Monday that a terrorist suspect accidentally blew himself up when a bomb was prematurely detonated in Tel Aviv in a “terror attack” on Sunday night. Two Islamic terrorist groups have claimed responsibility for Sunday’s terror attack.
According to The Daily Wire, Israeli police officials confirmed that an Islamic terrorist suspect accidentally blew himself up in Tel Aviv while transporting an explosive device that authorities believe was intended to be remotely detonated or used in a suicide attack. The outlet reported that the incident occurred at roughly 8 p.m. on Sunday. The suspect was killed in the explosion, while another individual was “moderately injured.”
“It has been confirmed as a bomb explosion,” police officials said, according to The Daily Wire. “As a result of the explosion, one person, whose identity is still unknown, was killed, and another person was moderately injured according to medical sources and was transported to a hospital for treatment.”
Joe Truzman, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, shared a video of Sunday’s explosion that was captured by security cameras.
Fox News reported that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for Sunday’s explosion. In a Monday statement obtained by Fox News, Al-Qassam Brigades and Saraya Al-Quds, the militant wings of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, confirmed the “execution of a martyrdom operation that took place last night, Sunday, in the city of ‘Tel Aviv.'”
According to the statement obtained by Fox News, the two terrorist groups threatened that “martyrdom operations within the occupied territories will return to the forefront as long as the massacres by the occupation, the displacement of civilians, and the assassination policy continue.”
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Fox News reported that Tel Aviv District police officers, forensic investigators, and officers from the police bomb disposal unit have been working with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) at the scene of Sunday’s bomb explosion in an investigation.
“All necessary actions and examinations are being carried out in coordination with the Shin Bet,” Israeli officials said in a statement obtained by Fox News. “It can now be confirmed that this was a terror attack involving the explosion of a powerful explosive.”
According to The Associated Press, Tel Aviv District’s police commander, Deputy Commissioner Peretz Amar, also confirmed that the body recovered at the scene of the explosion was the body of the terrorist suspect responsible for the explosion. Amar said, “We know that the mutilated body is not that of an innocent bystander but the one who carried the bomb.”
