The armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Monday claimed responsibility in a joint statement for Sunday evening's bomb attack on Tel Aviv, threatening to carry out other attacks in Israel.

The attack on Israel's commercial hub comes as Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza has killed at least 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to health ministry.

The armed wings of both groups, which have fought Israeli forces in Gaza, said in a statement that they "carried out the martyr operation that took place Sunday evening in the city of Tel Aviv", threatening more such attacks in Israel "as long as the occupation's massacres, the displacement of civilians and the policy of assassinations continue".

The rare Tel Aviv bombing killed the assailant and wounded one person, according to AFP.

*This story was edited by Ahram Online.