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Overseas now in a deadly truck-ramming incident at a crowded bus stop in central Israel. One person is dead and dozens more injured, some in serious condition. Israeli police are calling it a suspected terror attack. It comes one day after Israel's retaliatory strike on Iran. Abc's Tom Sophie Burge reports tonight from Tel Aviv.

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A truck slamming into a bus stop near Israeli military bases north of Tel Aviv, wounding more than 30 people. Tonight, one victim now confirmed dead. He's calling it a suspected terror attack.

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Well, you can see the destruction to the truck itself. The side of it ripped off, the wheel buckled. It gives you a sense of the force as it rammed into this area as a crowd of people, including military personnel, got off a bus. The driver, an Israeli-Arab citizen, say police, was shot dead by armed civilians at the scene.

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Paramedic Anastasia arriving within minutes.

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You saw people crushed underneath the truck.

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Yeah. One of the injured when I came still was under the truck.

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Iran's proxy Hezbollah praising the attack. Coming a day after Israel's mass aerial bombardment against Iran. Israel's saying it struck Iranian air defense systems and missile and drone production and and drone production and storage sites.

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Lindsay, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pushing back on the idea that he refrained from hitting Iranian nuclear and oil infrastructure because of US pressure. Iran calling Israel's attack a miscalculation, saying it will respond.

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Lindsay. Tom Suvi Birge from Tel Aviv for us. Thank.

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One person is dead and dozens are injured after a truck-ramming at a crowded bus stop that Israeli police are calling a terror ...