A motorbike-riding knifeman has stabbed people at random while driving through an Israeli town in the latest terror attack on the country.
The attack took place in the western town of Hadera and police say the suspect was located and ‘neutralised’ after fleeing.
Israeli Police said six people were wounded, two of them critically, and confirmed it had been a terror attack.
According to the Times of Israel, security sources named the assailant as Ahmad Jabareen, 36, an Israeli citizen from the nearby Arab city of Umm al-Fahm.
The suspect is said to have stabbed people in four different locations before riding away each time on his motorbike.
The attack took place in the western town of Hadera and police say the suspect was located and ‘neutralised’ after fleeing
Dramatic footage circulating online appears to show a man wearing a motorbike helmet being surrounded by police
According to police, the terrorist wounded two people in the first location, a third in the second, another two in a third location, and a sixth person in another in Hadera.
The attacker fled the scene with police in pursuit before they were able to stop him.
Dramatic video circulating online appears to show a man, wearing a motorbike helmet, being surrounded by police.
He is shot and injured before the officers jump on him and appear to detain him.
Paramedic Shaked Hajaj, who attended the scene, reportedly said that his team treated a ‘seriously injured person’ with ‘stab wounds in multiple areas of his body and suffered from multisystem trauma.’
‘He was semi-conscious; we provided lifesaving medical treatment and evacuated him to the hospital. After that, we returned to the scene to continue treating other injured individuals.’
An Israeli police officer aims his weapon from a vehicle following a suspected stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel, October 9, 2024
It comes just days after a 19-year-old police officer was killed in a terror attack in southern Israel on Sunday, a day before the one-year anniversary of the bloody October 7 attacks.
Shira Chaya Suslik, a sergeant from Israel’s border police, died after a gunman opened fire at the Beersheba Central Bus Station, with at least nine others wounded.
Less than a week earlier on October 1, two terrorists went on a knife and gun rampage in Tel Aviv, leaving seven dead.
At least nine others were wounded in the attack, which took place just a day before the Jewish New Year.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
