On Friday night, a terrorist carried out an attack on the popular seafront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing one civilian and leaving at least five others injured.
According to the Israeli government, the terrorist shot and ran over several people who were walking by.
A 35-year-old Italian man was killed in the attack and five other people were injured.
Hours earlier, two Israeli-British sisters, aged 16 and 20, were killed in a separate attack, meaning that at least three people have been killed in terrorist acts in the past 24 hours.
The incidents come amid a conflict that is escalating every day in the Gaza Strip, a territory bordering Israel and southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army has just reported that it has attacked targets linked to the Palestinian organization Hamas in southern Lebanon and throughout the Gaza Strip.
The offensive followed a rocket barrage into Israeli territory, in which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it identified targets including “terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hamas in southern Lebanon.”
Tensions rose after Israeli police raided Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on several consecutive nights earlier this week, all in the midst of Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims.
While Hamas said it had no information about who fired the rockets from Lebanon, the group's chief, Ismail Haniyeh, who was in Lebanon when the rockets were launched, said Palestinians would not "sit idly" in the face of Israeli aggression.
The IDF said it would not allow Hamas to operate from Lebanon and held the Lebanese government responsible for every attack directed from its territory. Israeli warplanes also stepped up airstrikes in Gaza. Some 20 missiles hit four locations in 10 minutes.
"We will strike our enemies and they will pay a price for all acts of aggression," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address after an emergency meeting with his security cabinet.
Although he called for calming tensions, he assured that his government "will act decisively against extremists who use violence."
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned any military operation from his territory that "destabilises the situation".
The attack was the largest single bombardment of Israel's northern neighbor in 17 years.
With information from BBC
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