Israeli security forces pressed Saturday a manhunt for the gunman who killed two people and wounded seven others at a Tel Aviv pub, as the motive for the attack remained unclear.
The New Year day shooting Friday afternoon on Tel Aviv’s busy Dizengoff street came amid a wave of Palestinian attacks on Israelis and days after the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group threatened the Jewish state with violence.
“Police are continuing to search for suspect who murdered 2 Israelis in central Tel Aviv,” spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, adding that “road blocks were set up in different areas” of the coastal city.
After the attack, hundreds of police had been seen Friday scouring the area and entering buildings to search for suspects as police helicopters buzzed overhead.
Media reports identified the shooter as an Arab in his late 20s from northern Israel who had recently been jailed for attacking a soldier, but police refused to confirm.
Rosenfeld said there was a “strong possibility that this was a terrorist attack but we haven’t ruled out criminal motives”. He did not elaborate.
CCTV footage from a nearby health food store showed a bespectacled young man with a backpack calmly pretending to shop before going to the exit, placing the backpack on a trolley, removing what looks like a submachine gun and opening fire in the street.
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