At least eight dead in suspected terrorist attack in Tel Aviv

At least seven people were killed near Tel Aviv on Tuesday when two terrorists opened fire and stabbed victims, according to Israeli police.

The attack came just minutes before Iran fired a large volley of ballistic missiles into Israeli territory in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several other senior officials in the terror group last week.

According to authorities, the deadly attack occurred when the terrorists jumped from a train in the central Israeli city of Jaffa shortly after 7 p.m. local time.

One of the attackers used a gun, the other a knife, the Times of Israel reported, citing police.

According to the report, seven people were killed and eight others were injured.

Authorities were on scene investigating the attack when air raid sirens sounded, alerting residents to seek shelter from the impending rocket attack.

Chilling surveillance footage showed one of the men brandishing a rifle as the duo exited the train, while the bodies of blood-soaked victims lay strewn on the ground nearby.

The two suspects were shot dead by security forces and an armed civilian, police said.

Police are treating the incident at the train station as a suspected terrorist attack.

Paramedics were still on site treating the injured – including two people who were unconscious and in critical condition, the emergency service said.

Meanwhile, police were also investigating concerns about another terrorist incident at a hotel in the Herzliya district.

It was not immediately clear whether the two incidents were related.

Police did not release any further details about the second incident.

The shooting came just hours after Israel launched a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the terror group fired dozens of rockets in retaliation – including targeted attacks on the Mossad spy agency and a military base near Tel Aviv.

Shortly after the shooting, Iran, which provides financial and other support to numerous anti-Israel groups including Hezbollah, fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into densely populated areas of the Jewish state.

At least two were injured, but the only death reported so far in the strikes has been identified as a Palestinian worker named Sameh al-Asl, who was reportedly killed in the West Bank village of Nu'eima, not far from Jericho.

The escalation of hostilities comes less than a week after the one-year anniversary of the start of the war between Israel and Hamas.