Tel Aviv terror attack wounds seven
At least seven people were wounded in a terror attack on July 4 in Tel Aviv as a Palestinian attacker rammed his car into people waiting at a bus stop.
Video from the scene showed the attacker then emerge from his white truck and begin stabbing patrons at a nearby street cafe. According to the Israel Police, he was shot dead by a civilian with a gun.
The attack took place in commercial area of northern Tel Aviv.
Victims were evacuated to the Beilinson and Ichilov Hospitals. Three were in serious condition, two in moderate condition and two in mild condition.
“We arrived at the scene with a large force of MDA intensive care vehicles and ambulances. We saw that it was very serious, and near a bus stop there were five injured people, including a 46-year-old woman was lying on the sidewalk while she was conscious and suffering from severe trauma,” said one responding Magen David Adom medic.
One of the victims was a pregnant woman who lost her baby.
The terrorist was identified as 23-year-old Abed al-Wahab Khalila from the Palestinian village of Samua, near Hebron. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he was affiliated with any Palestinian terror groups.
The attack came as Israeli security forces were engaged in a wide scale counter-terror operation in Jenin.
Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai referenced the Jenin operation in remarks from the scene of the Tel Aviv attack on July 4.
“We estimate that as a result of the activity in the Judea and Samaria region, the motivation and potential for a terror attack will rise,” he said.
“Therefore, we have increased our forces. I also ask civilians to stay aware. We’ll do everything we can to provide security.”
The attack comes amid increasing violence that has largely been centered in the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Dozens of Israelis and more than 100 Palestinians have been killed in violent incidents since the beginning of the year.
Hamas praised the Tel Aviv attack as a “first response to the operation in Jenin.”
Source » ijn
