Arab-Israeli ran over and stabbed • 4 wounded • hunt after another terrorist

Four people were injured this evening (Sunday), in an attack in a shopping center in Gan Shmuel, on Highway 65.

According to the report, the terrorist, 20, an Israeli citizen, from Umm al-Fahm came to the scene in his car and tried to run over bystanders. He then left his car and went on a stabbing spree. A manhunt was held after another suspect who assisted the terrorist.

The attack in Gan Shmuel. Photo: Assaf Berzinger – MDA spokesperson

A 19 year old woman, unconscious with multi-system injury, was evacuated in serious condition while on a respirator to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera, a man of about 45 stabbed in his limbs was also taken in a mild condition. The two victims, a 14-year old girl in fair condition and in a young man of about 19 in slight condition, came independently from the scene to the hospital.

Hadera patrol officers identified the terrorist fleeing the scene and arrested him.

Tuvia Binkowitz, volunteer of Ichud Hatzalah said: "When I reached the scene I came across a young woman lying in a ditch by the roadside suffering from stabbings in her upper body and fully conscious. Together with other volunteers from the Hatzalah motorcycle unit, we gave her emergency treatment and later she was evacuated in an Intensive Care Unit to the hospital. Passersby said that more casualties evacuated themselves to the hospital."

The stabbing occurred against the backdrop of escalation in the north, and a stabbing that occurred at the bus station in Afula. During the day Arabs demonstrated in Ablin and Daboria in Wadi Ara. So too, Arabs threw stones at a bus towards Haifa. Damage was done but there were no injuries.
Photo: MDA

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