Two people dead in stabbing, car-ramming attack in Israel

"Attack comes a day after an Israeli army reservist in civilian clothes rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man praying on the roadside. Two people have died in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in northern Israel, officials say. Israeli police and emergency workers said a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank attacked and killed a man and a woman on Friday before he was shot and wounded."

"In Friday's incident, Israeli police said the attacker first crashed his vehicle into people in the northern city of Beit Shean, killing a 68-year-old man, and then sped onto a highway. Later, he fatally stabbed a 20-year-old woman near the highway, and the suspect was ultimately engaged with gunfire near Maonot Junction in Afula following intervention by a civilian bystander, police said, adding that the attacker was taken to a hospital."

"The attack came a day after an Israeli military reservist dressed in civilian clothes rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man who was praying on a roadside in the West Bank after earlier firing shots in the area. Footage was received of an armed individual running over a Palestinian individual, the Israeli military said in a statement about Thursday's attack, adding that the Israeli reservist's military service had been terminated."

Two people were killed in a combined car-ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel. Police reported a Palestinian from the Israeli-occupied West Bank first crashed his vehicle into people in Beit Shean, killing a 68-year-old man, then stabbed a 20-year-old woman near a highway; the attacker was shot, wounded, and taken to hospital. A teenage boy suffered minor wounds in the car-ramming. The previous day, an Israeli military reservist in civilian clothes rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man praying roadside in the West Bank; the reservist’s military service was terminated. Israeli forces said the attacker had infiltrated Israeli territory several days earlier. Since October 2023 tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza amid escalating settler violence and regular raids and arrests in the West Bank.

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