ISRAELI police tightened security today after least two people were killed and 10 injured following the latest shooting in Tel Aviv, the fourth attack in the past two weeks. 

The victims were named as 28-year-old Tomer Morad and Eytam Magini who was 27. They were both from the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba but lived in Tel Aviv. 

The assailant was shot dead by security forces near a mosque in Jaffa in the early hours of yesterday morning after a nine-hour manhunt. 

Israeli Prime Minister Natfali Bennett ordered investigations into the associates of the attacker, who has been identified as 28-year-old Raad Hazem from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. 

“We are maintaining maximum vigilance within Tel Aviv and throughout the country for fear of further incidents to imitation attacks,” he said.

Defence Minister Benny Gantz said that operations against this “wave of terror” would broaden with those who stage the attacks paying “a heavy price.”

The Popular Resistance Committees, a coalition of armed Palestinian groups, praised the “heroic operation” and said it exposed Israel’s “fragility and weakness.”

But Ofer Cassif, a Knesset member for the communist-led Hadash coalition, condemned the killings.

“Injury to innocent civilians is not a fight against injustice, but an injustice itself,” he said. 

“My condolences to the families of the murdered and best wishes for complete healing to the wounded.”

The lawmaker warned against attempts by Mr Bennett to “tarnish an entire nation with violence” and increased repression. 

“This is not how we will stop the bloodshed. Killing will only lead to more killing,” he said. 

“Only the end of the occupation of the territories … and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside it, will bring an end to the violence.”