Terror In Tel Aviv: Nine Injured In Car Ramming and Stabbing Attack, Assailant Killed.
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July 4,2023
At least nine people have been injured, three of them seriously, in a car ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv a day after Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the West Bank city of Jenin.
According to a police spokesperson, the attacker was a Palestinian resident of the occupied West Bank, who was shot and killed at the scene by a passerby. The attack came as Israel’s top policeman warned of the risk of further incidents as the military operation in the West Bank continued.
Hamas later claimed the 20-year-old was a member of the militant Islamist group and was retaliating for the Israeli assault on Jenin.
The assailant drove a pickup truck into pedestrians close to a bus stop on the coastal city’s busy Pinchas Rosen Street before leaving his vehicle to stab one of the victims in the neck.
In CCTV footage of the attack, a figure in dark clothes can be seen running from where the car had stopped, straddling a bike lane, running among the seating of a pavement cafe where he tries to stab a man attempting to tackle him. As he flees he can be seen being intercepted by a motorcyclist who shoots him.
A second video posted online captures the scene a few moments later, as the motorcyclist, in grey shorts and T-shirt and wearing a white helmet, kicks away a knife in the hand of the attacker as he lies wounded on the ground before approaching him and shooting him a second time.
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