The terror attack on Sunday in Tel Aviv was supposed to be on a large scale, Tel Aviv District Police Superintendent Peretz Omer said Monday evening after new footage from the moment of the explosion was released.
"If he had entered the synagogue, we would have faced a completely different, extremely difficult, and tragic event. We are making every effort, with reinforcements, to flood the area so that, heaven forbid, if someone else considers carrying out such an attack, and also to provide security to the residents. There is no alert for another attack. Anyone who wants to come to Tel Aviv, they should come—we are a large police force with a lot of resources," Omer said.
"The terrorist apparently noticed the synagogue and apparently activated the device by mistake instead of stepping on it," Omer said.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have claimed responsibility for the terror attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday, in which a bomb detonated, the group announced via their al-Qassam Brigades Telegram account on Monday.
“We announce the implementation of the martyrdom operation that took place yesterday evening, Sunday, in the city of ‘Tel Aviv.’”
Hamas says it will continue such operations
Hamas continued by saying that they would continue such operations so long as Israel continued its “massacres, displacement of civilians, and policy of assassinations.”
On Monday, Israel Police and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) confirmed that the Sunday night explosion in Tel Aviv was a terrorist attack carried out via a powerful explosive device.
The police and Shin Bet noted that the alertness levels had been raised throughout the Dan Region, and searches were being carried out in the area.
According to Israeli media on Monday, the terrorist came from the West Bank.