Israeli police said they shot and killed a man who injured a soldier in a stabbing attack Sunday at a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. Another soldier was also
“slightly injured in the attack
,” the army said, adding that it had
“neutralized the terrorist
. ”
The assailant was shot and killed, police said. According to Israeli media, the perpetrator of the attack was a young Arab Bedouin and Israeli citizen whose tribe originates from the Negev, a desert region of which Beersheva is the largest city.
“We have his identity and we are working to understand his motivations,” police said. "
He had a long criminal record and was due to begin community service in about two weeks following a conviction for drug and theft offenses," according to the same source.
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Doctors said they rescued a 20-year-old man who suffered
“a stab wound”
before taking him to hospital. Stabbing attacks have increased in Israel and the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, triggered by the unprecedented Hamas attack that day on Israeli soil.
Some 1,160 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israel, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data. Israeli military operations in retaliation have left more than 32,700 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement in power since 2007 in Gaza.