Tel Aviv District Commander Chief Superintendent Haim Sarugrufi arrived at the scene of the car explosion in Tel Aviv and said, "A force arriving at the scene identifies movement of people looking in a certain direction and realizes that the suspect who placed the device may be fleeing. A Yasam force ran after the suspect and arrested him." He added: "The arrested suspect is very well known to us. It's a device found under the car." According to him, the injured are known as "a group from an organization in the north."