Jaffa Man Armed with Gun, Threatens People, Stopped by Locals on Tel Aviv Promenade

Jerusalem, 22 September, 2021 (TPS) -- (Photo shows the man who stopped the attacker. He is the one in the bandage.)

A short while ago Israeli police arrested a Jaffa resident on the Tel Aviv promenade by the beach on suspicion of threatening random people who he passed by with violence. According to the Police Department’s spokesman, police officers arrived on the scene at Herbert Samuel Street in Tel Aviv after receiving a number of reports from people in the area about the threat.

The man was stopped by civilians on the street.

The local police arrived at the scene and arrested the suspect. Police say that he is a 22-year-old from Jaffa and that they seized the weapon. His identity has not yet been revealed. There are no casualties. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

The public is asked to obey the instructions of the police and not to come to the area so as to allow the police to do their job.

Police have not yet revealed what type of weapon was used, but people at the scene said that it was some sort of an improvised gun made from the parts of an Uzi sub-machine gun.

At this time, no one was reported to be seriously harmed by the man. But At 5:29 P.M. local time, a report was received at MDA’s 101 hotline in the Dan area about a woman who suffered from anxiety and a man who was slightly injured in the head while fighting a young man in a violent incident on Herbert Samuel Street, at the corner of Zerubavel in Tel Aviv.