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Kieren Williams

Brit casualties after car ploughs into crowd on beach in Tel Aviv 'terror attack'

There were British casualties in a horrific attack that saw a car plough into a crowd of people on a beach in Israel yesterday.

The shocking incident took place in Tel Aviv, as a second attack saw two sisters, believed to be British, shot dead.

Police said a car smashed into a group of people near a popular seaside park, before it flipped over.

It was reported that six British and Italian tourists were injured, with one killed.

Alongside that the two sisters from the UK were killed when their car was reportedly ambushed in the West Bank.

But today, Lord Tariq Ahmad of Wimbledon said: "I condemn yesterday’s attacks in the West Bank, killing two British-Israeli nationals and injuring one other, and in Tel Aviv where an Italian national was killed and British nationals were injured. My thoughts and prayers are with all those impacted."

People gather and lay flowers at the site where an Italian tourist was killed in a Palestinian attack yesterday (AP)

In one of the shocking attacks yesterday, a 30-year-old Italian man was killed as four others, including a 17-year-old, were injured.

They received medical treatment for mild to moderate injuries, the rescue service said.

Israel's Foreign Ministry referred to the incident as a "terror attack", a term Israeli officials use for assaults by Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilised police and army reserves after one man was killed and five people were wounded in the attack (AFP via Getty Images)

Alongside that, two sisters, reported to be British, were killed in the occupied West Bank after Israel bombed Lebanon, and the Gaza Strip in a massive escalation.

One girl aged 15 and her elder sister in her 20s died and their mother, believed to be in her 40s, was seriously after the car they were in was fired upon.

Their car was hit in the Israeli settlement of Hamra, 30 miles north of Jerusalem. The family is said to have moved to Israel from the UK in 2005.

One of the people injured in yesterday's car-ramming attack was rushed to a hospital in Tel Aviv (AP)

Israel's military said: "A shooting attack was carried out on a vehicle at the Hamra Junction. IDF [Israeli army] soldiers are searching the area."

It followed days of violence focused on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque and a massive rocket salvo from southern Lebanon and Gaza.

As many as 34 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon and dozens more were launched from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

Violence between Israel and Palestine has spiralled following vicious police raids on the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock)

Israel's military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza. The cross-border fighting follows two nights of police raids at the iconic al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

The shooting in the West Bank may spark a wider conflict, it is feared.

Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project, told Al Jazeera: "Endless denial of freedoms and rights for the Palestinians under occupation – living under the repressive Israeli regime – is inevitably going to lead to people taking up whatever forms of resistance – that’s what happens across the board, globally, historically."

Israel's bombing of Hamas sites in Lebanon and the militant barrage it followed is believed to be the biggest flare-up across that border since the 2006 Hezbollah - Israel War.

Israel has stressed that its warplanes struck sites belonging to only Palestinian militant groups.

But the barrage risks drawing in Israel's bitter Shia foe Hezbollah, which holds sway over much of southern Lebanon and has links to the Palestinians.

A fresh war with Iran-backed Hezbollah risks a massive outbreak of violence in the region as Tehran already supports both that network and Gaza rulers Hamas, even though it is a Sunni organisation.

It is believed links between Hezbollah and Hamas have grown in recent years, with Hamas developing bases in southern Israel.

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