Israeli officer killed, several injured in shooting attack near Ashdod

At least one Israeli officer has been killed in a shooting attack near the city of Ashdod in the central part of the occupied territories.

Israeli media said that four more people were also wounded in the attack that took place at the Yavne interchange on Tuesday.

They added that the Israeli officer died on his way to the hospital and that the suspected assailant was shot dead.

'Heroic' operation

The media office of the Resistance Committees in Palestine hailed the "heroic" shooting operation, saying it came in response to the crimes of the Zionist regime in the besieged Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

The operation is "a new slap in the face of Zionist arrogance ... and evidence of the fragility and weakness of the Zionist system ... and its inability to confront the strikes of our resistance in Palestine and Lebanon," it added.

The Ashdod attack carries a message to Israelis that "the resistance has the great ability to target the strategic depth of the Zionist entity, and therefore [they must] expect more and more surprises."

The incident comes just days after one settler was killed and five others were wounded during a stabbing attack in four different locations in Hadera in central occupied lands.

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Israel is currently waging brutal two-front aggression that has killed at least 42,344 people in the Gaza Strip and 2,309 others in Lebanon since early October 2023.

In the same  period, at least 737 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers or settlers in the West Bank.

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