Dizengoff shooter likely hiding, may have killed himself

Police and the Shin Bet security service continue the manhunt for Nashat Milhem, the terrorist who killed two people in an attack on Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Street on Friday.

Since Milhem’s name and photo were published yesterday evening, police received hundreds of calls from citizens claiming to have information on Milhem or to have seen him.

Security officials say that Milhem may still be in the center of the country. They believe he is hiding, aware of the manhunt.

Another possibility is that Mihem committed suicide after the attack.

A security official, asked whether the shooter may have left Israel and entered the West Bank, told the Hebrew language newspaper Maariv: “I wish this was the case. It would distance him from civilian areas and also the chance of catching him in the [Palestinian] territories is higher.”