Israel: 4 killed In A Knife Attack

After a man with a knife attacked five people and ran over another in southern Israel on Tuesday. Prime Minister promised a crackdown on “terrorists.”

Unrest broke out at a gas station and outside a shopping mall in Beersheba’s southern city shortly after 4:00 p.m. (1400 GMT), according to police and emergency medical responders.

iexclusivenews reports that according to authorities, the assailant abandoned his car after arriving at the gas station and “stabbed a woman.”

He then returned to his car and slammed it into a 60-year-old cyclist outside the shopping center.

iexclusive News Nigeria gathered that according to authorities and the Magen David Adom emergency medical response organization.

The guy then exited his car and began stabbing others across the shopping center.

“Citizens who were on the scene fired (at the suspect) and neutralized him,” police stated, without mentioning the suspect’s condition.

Four individuals were killed, according to an MDA spokeswoman.

Following the attack, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett conducted “a consultation with the minister of internal security and the commissioner of the police,” according to his office.

Later, he commended those who shot the alleged assailant, saying they “demonstrated resourcefulness and courage while preventing further casualties.”

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“The security forces have been placed on high alert. We will put up a lot of effort to combat terrorists.

We’ll go after them, as well as those who assist them “Israeli Prime Minister stated in a tweet.

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which governs Gaza, issued a statement that did not claim responsibility for the incident but blamed it on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesman, told a Hamas-controlled radio station that the “action is a response to Israel’s program of ethnic displacement against our Palestinian people inside the occupied territories.”

In Israel, stabbing and car-ramming incidents, often carried out by lone Palestinian perpetrators, are common.

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However, the southern Israel area of the country, including Beersheba, has recently been spared from such violence, with most of it centered in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem or the occupied West Bank.

Recent instability in the south has seen fights between Israel’s Bedouin community, which makes up 20% of the country’s Arab population, and security personnel.

There were no immediate details from police on the presumed attacker’s possible affiliations.

One of the victims of the terror attack today in which a terrorist killed four Israeli civilians: Doris Yahbas, a mother of 3.

May her memory be a blessing