Knife attack in southern Israel leaves 4 dead

Unrest at a gas station outside a shopping mall in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba began after 4 p.m. on March 22 (local time), police forces and paramedics responded. said local emergency services.

After arriving at the gas station, the attacker got out of the car and “stabbed a woman”. Subject then returned to his vehicle and crashed it into a 60-year-old man riding a bicycle outside the shopping mall.

The suspect got out of the car again and started stab a knife others in the area around the mall, according to police and Magen David Adom emergency medical responder.

Beersheba police said that “people present at the scene opened fire (on the suspect) and neutralized him”, but did not specify the suspect’s current condition.

Four people were killed in the incident knife attack this.

The car the attacker used in the stabbing that left four people dead outside a shopping mall in Beersheba, Israel. (Photo: Reuters)

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office said he held “a consultation meeting with the Interior Minister and the Commissioner of Police (senior rank in the Israeli police force)” after the attack.

“Security forces are on high alert. We will work hard to fight the terrorists. We will also pursue them and those who help them,” the Israeli prime minister wrote on Twitter. .

Hamas, the Palestinian Muslim group in the Gaza Strip, claimed it was not responsible for the attack.

“This operation is a response to Israel’s policy against the Palestinian people inside the occupied territories,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told a Hamas-controlled radio station.

Knife and car crashes, often carried out by lone Palestinians, are fairly common in Israel, mostly in East Jerusalem or the West Bank.

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