Tel Aviv – A Palestinian stabbed and lightly wounded four people in Tel Aviv before being arrested Sunday, the latest violence in a wave of attacks by Palestinians in the last year and a half, Israeli police said.
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Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld called the violence a “terror attack” and said the 18-year-old suspect was being questioned by police.
The attack took place on a street near the city’s popular beachfront.
Security camera footage showed the assailant accosting several people in a hotel lobby. The owner of an art gallery in the area told reporters he also entered her establishment, punching her in the ear and stabbing her before fleeing.
First responder teams treated four victims, all of whom are listed in light condition, suffering from bruises and stabbings. The wounded included two men and a woman from the area near the Herods Hotel and another man closer to the Atarim Square. All were evacuated in ambulances to Ichilov hospital.
Yossi Eckler a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah EMS teams, who was the first responder on the scene said: “When I arrived at the hotel we found two men and one woman lightly injured in the lobby. They were suffering from wounds in their upper body. While treating them together with other EMTs from the ambu-cycle unit who arrived after me, we were told of another wounded man outside of the hotel. EMTs promptly ran to treat him as well.”
Israel says the violence is fueled by Palestinian incitement. Palestinians say it stems from anger over 50 years of occupation.
I love how these Vermin talk about occupation….. There are these rats sitting on Supreme Courts, Israel’s Parliament, and in Israeli hospitals working as doctors nurses and aides. I would love to see this in a Palestinian hospital, if there even are any.
Yep. Blame the victims. The way Israel should deal with those terrorists they capture should include maiming them so that their function is seriously limited, infecting them with HIV or some other dreaded disease before sending them back to their families, and, if they reside within Israel, deporting them and their families to wherever they belong. Of course, they can be given a mandatory death penalty.