An Italian tourist has been killed and several people injured in a terror attack in Tel Aviv

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It comes hours after it was confirmed that two women who died in a West Bank shooting were British.

The women, aged 16 and 20, died when their car crashed after it was shot at on Friday near an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley, Israeli authorities said. Their mother, reported locally as being in her forties, was seriously wounded.

Two sisters killed in a gun attack in the West Bank were British-Israeli citizens, the British Foreign Office has said.

The shooting happened as Israel’s foreign ministry confirmed that one person had been killed and several injured, believed to be tourists, in a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Friday night.

Police said a car had rammed into a group of people near a seaside park and flipped over before officers shot the driver dead. A 30-year-old man was killed, while at least four other people sustained mild to moderate injuries, Israel’s rescue service said.

The attack came against the backdrop of heightened tensions after Israel unleashed airstrikes on Lebanon and bombarded the Gaza Strip on Friday, targeting militant group Hamas in retaliation for a barrage of cross-border rockets fired from Lebanon the previous day.

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