An Arab man stabbed and killed at least four people in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba before being shot dead by a passerby, police and emergency services said.
This is one of the deadliest attacks in Israel in recent years.
So far no organization has claimed responsibility. Israeli media reported that the perpetrator was an Arab citizen of Israel, a former high school teacher who had been jailed on charges of having ties to the Islamic State.
“He appears to have been an isolated terrorist,” police spokesman Eli Levy told Channel 13 TV. “A citizen took the initiative, shot him and killed him,” he added.
Ambulance service Magen David Adom reported that three women and a man were killed by the perpetrator who attacked them at a gas station and a mall. At least two other people were injured and one of them is in critical condition.
Tensions are rising in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as the holy month of Ramadan approaches for Muslims, a period of violent violence in the past. There have been several knife attacks in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, and some of the perpetrators have been shot and killed by Israeli forces.
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