Seven injured in terrorist ramming-stabbing attack in Tel Aviv
Palestinian terrorist shot dead by armed civilian after ramming pickup truck into pedestrians, stabbing others on Pinchas Rosen Street
(Times of Israel) – Seven people were wounded, four of them seriously, in a car-ramming and stabbing terror attack in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon, police and medics said.
According to police, the Palestinian assailant rammed his pickup truck into people on a sidewalk on Pinchas Rosen Street in the city, then got out and stabbed others.
He was shot dead by an armed civilian.
Police spokesman Eli Levy said the incident was a terror attack.
Four of the victims were listed in serious and moderate-to-serious condition, the nearby Ichilov and Beilinson hospitals said. Another three were listed in moderate and good-to-moderate condition. One person was also brought to Ichilov after suffering acute anxiety.
Graphic footage from the scene showed several people on the ground.
Another video clip showed an armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet shooting the apparent assailant with a handgun multiple times, as well as kicking away a knife from his hand.
The Shin Bet security agency said the terrorist who carried out the attack did not have an entry permit to Israel.
The agency in a statement named the attacker as Abed al-Wahab Khalila, 20, from the southern West Bank town of as-Samu, near Hebron.
Earlier reports by Hebrew-language media incorrectly named the attacker as Hussein Khalila, 23, an apparent relative who did have a permit to enter Israel for medical care.
The Shin Bet said the attacker, Abed al-Wahab Khalila, had no known prior security offenses.
The attack came as the Israeli military was carrying out a major operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
The operation came after a series of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis killed 24 people since the start of this year. Many of the attackers came from Jenin and its environs.
On Monday, in another suspected terror attack, a Palestinian teenager stabbed and lightly hurt an Israeli man in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak.
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