
Update: Hamas Palestinian terrorist group took responsibility for the explosion of the bus in Tel Aviv. The application was distributed through local media, and also voiced through the loudspeakers in the mosques in the gas sector, BBC correspondents report . Currently, one suspect has been arrested, the police continues to search for a woman who, presumably, can have another explosive device, reports The Jerusalem Post .
A bus exploded in the center of Tel Aviv. According to the latest data, 15 people are among the victims. Earlier, the Israeli edition of Haaretz reported that 10 people were injured, three of them were seriously injured.

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“We are sure that it was a terrorist attack,” said the representative of the Israeli police, Mikka Roselfeld. According to preliminary information, a regular bus was blown up by an explosive device. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially called the explosion of the bus a terrorist act.

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The explosion thundered about noon by local time. According to Ynet.news.com , this happened on Shaul A-Melech Street in the central part of the city, near the main military base of Kiriya. According to eyewitnesses, the bus was completely burned out from the inside. The police are considering two versions of the terrorist attack: a bomb or a suicide bomb, HuffingtonPost.com reports to the bus. Most of the victims received minor injuries, Al Jazeera reports with reference to the press secretary of the Prime Minister of Israel Beniamin Netanyahu Orer Gandelman.
The terrorist act in the capital of Israel will not remain unpunished for those who committed it, said the official representative of the Israeli Prime Minister Alex rural. "The terrorists should know that not a single blow to our civilians will pass for them for free, so we will continue military operations in order to destroy terrorists, destroy their weapons, their systems, destroy everything possible that is used by terrorists in order to shoot and conduct terrorist acts," the village said.
On Tuesday, Israel agreed to postpone the beginning of the ground operation for 24 hours and thereby gave the negotiation groups to coordinate the conditions of a truce. This attack can disrupt all peace negotiations in the region.