Israel has suspended entry permits for more than 80,000 Palestinians after four people were killed and several others were injured by two gunmen in a crowded open-air shopping centre in central Tel Aviv.
Officials say the attackers were Palestinian cousins from the village of Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. They are now in custody, with one of them being treated for gunshot wounds.
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