to the continued violence in the Middle East where a car ramming attack in tel aviv has
left at least eight people injured.
According to police, a driver rammed into pedestrians standing in a shopping center,
then got out of the car to stab people.
Police say an armed civilian then shot and killed the attacker.
This comes one day after Israel launched its largest military operation in the west bank
in more than two decades.
The Palestinian authority says the violence in jenin has killed ten people there, almost
100 others have been injured.
Heavy smoke could be seen as Israeli forces carried out drone strikes and deployed hundreds
of soldiers to target what they say is terrorist infrastructure in a refugee camp.
We have more live from tel aviv on the latest.
Israel is labeling this car ramming attack and stabbing attack a terrorist attack.
What can you tell us about what happened there in tel aviv?
>> Reporter: Yeah, I'm in
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>> Reporter: Yeah, I'm in northwest tel aviv where the attack took place in the last two,
three hours or so.
This is on a kind of main thoroughfare in front of a line of shops.
What police have been saying, that this truck that you can see behind me, they say that
it -- mounted the pavement, running into pedestrians.
You can see how the windshield is completely smashed.
The front of the car, front bumper almost entirely torn off.
This bus stop very, very badly damaged.
Police saying that after running into the pedestrians on the pavement, the attacker
then got out of the car and began stabbing people they say with a sharp object before
an armed civilian who was actually on scene, who had heard what happened, turned around,
heard the noise, and responded by shooting and killing the attacker.
Hamas has now claimed credit for this attack saying that the attacker was one of its fighters.
A defense official telling me he crossed over from the west bank.
We just spoke to the spokesperson for the Israeli police.
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police.
Take a listen to what he had to say.
>> It was an elderly individual who actually heard the loud noise that was happening behind
him, turned around, saw that there was an individual, a terrorist, with a sharp object
trying to stab people after he committed the terror attack with the bus stop.
He knew right then and there this was a terror attack and neutralized this terrorist.
>> Reporter: Now eight people we know have been injured.
One of them a woman in her 40s is in critical condition.
Now as I mentioned, hamas has taken credit for this.
This is coming in direct connection to what's happening in jenin.
You mention we're in the second day of that massive military operation.
This is the biggest, largest Israeli military operation in the occupied west bank since
the days of the infada since 2002.
Overnight things were not as dramatic as they were the day before.
The Israeli military saying they're operating there.
They said they've touched every single corner of the refugee camp.
And overnight thousands of Palestinians have fled the
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Palestinians have fled the refugee camp trying to seek safer ground as the Israeli military
operation continuing they say trying to dismantle jenin as a hornets nest, as they call it,
for terrorist activity.
Of course, civilians so often caught in the crossfire.
The Israeli military saying this operation could continue for another day or two.
And hamas, once this operation started taking -- started, hamas called on all of its members
to strike Israel wherever they could.
That's what we have today is a member of hamas, hamas claiming this person as one of its fighters,
ramming into pedestrians here in northwest tel aviv in what police are calling a terror
attack.
>> The plo calling this war crimes, what's happening in jenin.
The Israelis saying they were after terrorists.
What do you see happening going further now?
You have hamas claiming this car ramming as a response.
Do you expect another response
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Do you expect another response from hamas or anyone from inside gaza, as well?
>> Reporter: Yeah, we've been asking the Israeli military about this, and they say they are
prepared for really a response from anywhere, from the west bank, potentially from gaza,
or from like what we saw today, this car ramming attack.
So far we have no indication that hamas and gaza is planning on, for example, shooting
up rockets.
There has been a response from Palestinians in the occupied west bank and parts of east
Jerusalem.
They have gone on a general strike in solidarity with the people in jenin.
So far the action seems to be very much focused on Jen