Eyewitnesses to Tel Aviv attack
Eyewitnesses to Tel Aviv attackIsrael National News

An eyewitness to the shooting attack that took place on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv on Thursday night recalled the horrifying moments in a conversation with Israel National News.

"I turned around and saw someone with a rifle in his hand, I shouted 'terrorist', I laid down on the ground and pulled my husband. It's the first time I've experienced something like this. I was very scared. I saw blood and people lying on the floor, it was very scary," she said.

Two other women who were sitting in the bar next to the scene of the attack added, "We were sitting outside the bar, suddenly we heard crazy gunshots and we just left everything and ran frantically to the place that we thought was the safest, a storage room inside the bar. There was a big mess, a crazy panic attack, everyone was crying and there was the noise made by the police. It was a feeling of helplessness."

For over an hour, the women stayed at the bar with complete darkness around them and no cellphone reception, completely cut off from the outside world with no possibility of finding out what is happening outside. "It was not possible to leave and go home or even go to a safe place. We were just now permitted to leave."

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Three people were wounded, two critically and one lightly, in the terrorist shooting attack. Two other people were hospitalized for shock. The shooter was neutralized by police and has been identified as a 23-year-old member of the Hamas terrorist organization.

The wounded, who are reported to be men in their 20s, have been taken to Ichilov Hospital.