Israeli leaders vow revenge after Tel Aviv attack
Israeli police at a Tel Aviv café where a shooting attack took place on 8 June.Xinhua
Israeli soldiers stop Palestinians at the entrance of Yatta near the West Bank city of Hebron on 9 June.APA images
Maureen Clare Murphy-9 June 2016
Israel imposed collective punishment measures and its leaders threatened more to come after two Palestinian men opened fire in a busy upscale Tel Aviv square Wednesday night, killing four Israelis and injuring several more.
Those killed have been identified as Ido Ben Ari, who had served in the Israeli army’s elite Sayeret Matkal commando unit; Ilana Naveh, a 39-year-old mother of four; 32-year-old Mila Mishayev, who was waiting at a cafe for her fiancé when she was shot; and Michael Feige, 58, a sociologist and anthropologist considered anexpert on Israel’s settler movement and whose scholarship focuses on Israeli collective memory and political myth.
Oren Yiftachel, Feige’s colleague at Ben-Gurion University, told the Israeli publication YNet: “An anthropologist and sociologist of Israeli society … [Feige] was a true democrat, a rarity in that regard. He had the ability to understand all sides, and that’s what made him such a good anthropologist. This is a great loss to our university.”
Sixteen others were wounded during the attack; three were still in hospital in moderate condition on Thursday, the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz reported.
The alleged Palestinian gunmen, identified as cousins Muhammad Ahmad Mukhamara and Khaled Muhammad Mukhamara from the town of Yatta near the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, were also wounded before being apprehended.
Israeli media broadcast security camera footage of the incident, showing the two alleged gunmen, dressed in suits, opening fire in a restaurant:
