Four people were killed on Tuesday in a knife attack and a hit-and-run in the Israeli city of Beersheva.in the south of the country, the local newspaper Haaretz reported, citing sources from the Israeli police and emergency services.
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According to the same newspaper, the attacker was a Bedouin resident of the region who would support the Islamic State, and who was “neutralized” by a bus driver at the scene.
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Waiting for more clear details, Among the victims there would be two women aged 35 and 40 respectively. Israeli Police called the incident a “suspected terrorist attack.”
As specified, the attack took place at different points, and began when the attacker stabbed a woman at a gas station. He then drove his car to a shopping center area, where he hit a bicyclist.
After that, he moved to the other side of the street. There he got out of the car and attacked another man and a woman with the knife, after which he was shot down by a passer-by who was passing through the area.
Civilians present at the scene opened fire in the direction of the assailant and “neutralized” him, the Israeli police added, without specifying whether the man was still alive.
The Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, Magen David Adom, had initially reported one death, before raising the death toll to three, he explained to the AFP his spokesman, Zaki Heller.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who had just returned from a summit in Egypt with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Zayed, is following the latest developments in Beer Sheva closely and is in contact with the public security minister and the police chief, his office in Jerusalem said.
On the other hand, the Palestinian Islamist movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad, with a strong presence in Gaza, praised the attack, although neither of the two groups claimed their authorship.
“The crimes of the occupation (Israel) will be confronted with heroic operations: stabbings, running over and shootings,” a Hamas spokesman said on the organization’s official radio.
According to media, the Israeli Internal Intelligence service, Shin Bet, is investigating the attack. The attacker would be a Bedouin Arab from the town of Hura who had served a prison sentence in the past for security offenses and belonging to an armed group.
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*With information from EFE and aFP
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