2011 Tel Aviv truck attack

{{Short description|2011 terror attack in Tel Aviv, Israel}}

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| title = 2011 Tel Aviv truck attack

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| image = 461 Highway Israel.jpg

| caption = Highway 461, Israel. The attack took place on the section of the road inside Tel Aviv.

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| location = {{Flagicon|Israel}} Tel Aviv, Israel

| date = {{start date and age|df=yes|2011|5|15}} (Nakba Day)

| native_name = פיגוע הדריסה בדרום תל אביב

| native_name_lang = he

| time = 9:35 am

| type = Vehicle-ramming attack

| fatalities = 1 civilian

| injuries = 17 civilians

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| assailant = Aslam Ibrahim Isa

| numpart = 1

| weapon = Truck

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On the morning of 15 May 2011, a terrorist attack was carried out in Tel Aviv. A truck was deliberately rammed into cars and pedestrians at busy "Bar-Lev" street (Highway 461) in the south of the city, killing one man and injuring 17 others.{{Cite news |url=http://m.jpost.com/National-News/TA-1-dead-17-hurt-in-suspected-truck-terror-attack-220575 |title=TA: 1 dead, 17 hurt in suspected truck terror attack |first=Yaakov |last=Lappin |date=15 May 2011 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post}} The truck driver was identified as Aslam Ibrahim Isa, a 22-year-old Arab-Israeli man from the city of Kfar Kassem. Immediately after the attack he was arrested and taken to questioning by police.

Around 9:35 am, beginning at "Mesubim" junction and for 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), Isa shouted "Allahu Akbar!" as he hit with his truck multiple cars, buses, traffic signs, security rails, and people.{{cite news|last1=Lappin|first1=Yaakov|title=Shouting 'Allahu Akbar,' truck driver leaves deadly trail in south Tel Aviv. 1 dead, 17 injured in carnage. Police suspect terror attack|publisher=Jerusalem Post|date=16 May 2011|id={{ProQuest|867465834}}}} Police said a total of 15 vehicles were hit during the attack. Aviv Morag, a 29-year-old man from Givatayim, was killed. The ramming attack ended when the truck crashed into an empty bus near a school. Isa then left the truck and reportedly shouted and threw objects at people. He hit a young girl in the head with a traffic light.{{Cite news |last=Zitun |first=Yoaz |date=2011-05-15 |title=Suspected terror attack in TA; 1 dead |language=en |work=Ynetnews |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4068672,00.html |access-date=2023-02-12}} He was arrested by police, and later sentenced to prison.

This was one of a small cluster of terrorist vehicle-ramming attacks in Israel in this period, including the 2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack, the 2008 Jerusalem BMW attack and the 2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack.{{cite news|last1=Lappin|first1=Yaakov|title=Background: Ramming Terror Attacks in Recent Years|url=http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Background-Ramming-terror-attacks-in-recent-years|accessdate=1 October 2017|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|date=29 August 2011}}