Two people were killed and several injured in a shooting in the city of Hadera in Israel, north of the capital Tel Aviv, and the two shooters were then gunned down by undercover police officers.

Of the two victims, one was a male and one female. In addition to those killed, six people were injured in the shooting, two of whom were treated on-site, while the remaining four had to be hospitalised. The identities of the assailants were not disclosed.

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“Our officers managed to neutralise the assailants and prevent a bigger terrorist attack,” national police spokesman Eli Levy told Israeli television.

At the time of writing this article, no group had claimed responsibility for the attack, but Hamas praised the attack, BBC reported.

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The attack on Sunday took place as Israel held a “historic summit” with three Arab states with which it has normalised ties, namely, Bahrain, Morocco, and the UAE, along with Egypt and the US.

Following the attack, Israel foreign minister Yair Lapid said that all the attendees at the meeting had condemned the attack.

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The attack in Hadera comes five days after four people were killed and several more wounded at a shopping mall in the southern city of Beersheba in Israel.

That attack, according to Israeli authorities, was carried out by an  Israeli Arab, who had earlier been jailed for supporting the Islamic State (IS). The assailant was later identified as Muhammad Galeb Ahmad Abu Alqian, a high school teacher from the Bedouin town of Hura, located 12 kilometres from Beersheba.