Terror attack kills several people at Israel rail station

At least six people have died at a Tel Aviv light rail station after two gunman opened fire just as Iran attacked Israel.

At least six people have been killed when suspected terrorists opened fire on a tram and a tram stop just south of Tel Aviv.

It is one of the deadliest terror attacks in Israel for years.

The attack happened just minutes before Iran’s missile attack on the country.

CCTV footage caught two attackers walking off a Red Line light rail service in the central Israeli city of Jaffa and firing on the platform just after 7pm local time, according to authorities, The New York Post reported.

One was red with a rifle and the other with a knife.

Horrific images from the scene have shown the two men exiting the tram with dead bodies possibly inside. Another image shows what appears to be dead bodies sprawled on the platform.

The gunmen were shot dead at the scene.

Members of the Israeli police's forensics department inspect the scene of a shooting attack in Jaffa south of Tel Aviv on October 1, 2024. At least four people were shot dead on October 1 in a suspected attack in Israel's central city of Tel Aviv, police said, adding that the two assailants had been "neutralised". (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Emergency services are seen near the site of a shooting by gunmen at a light rail station on October 1, 2024 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

“A woman came off the light rail screaming. Immediately after that, I saw injured people. It’s a bad feeling seeing the scene,” Mohammed, a flower seller who witnessed the attack, told local media.

“The Magen David Adom ambulance service said eight people were killed – which included the two suspected gunmen – and at least seven were wounded, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Newspaper The Times of Israel was reported the attackers have been identified as Mehmed Khalaf Saher Rajab and Hassan Mohammed Hassan Tamimi, both Palestinian residents of Hebron in the West Bank.

The victims have yet to be identified.

The attack occurred at the Erlich stop of the Red Line tram on Jerusalem Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Jaffa.

A gun could be seen on at least one of the men as they left the tram. Picture: Twitter/X.

CCTV showed the two gunmen shooting on the light rail platform. Picture: Twitter/X.

The two gunmen were “neutralised” by security forces, police said.

Police are treating the incident as a suspected terror attack.

According to The New York Times, Haim Sargarov, the police commander of the Tel Aviv district, told reporters that the attackers were “not Israelis“.

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