Two killed in terrorist attack in northern Israel
Two people have been killed and several others injured in a terrorist attack in northern Israel, Israeli media reported on Friday, citing police sources.
A Palestinian attacker drove his car into a group of pedestrians near Beit She’an, killing a 68-year-old man and injuring at least two other people, including a 16-year-old boy, officials were quoted as saying.
The attacker then killed an 18-year-old woman with a knife at the entrance to the Ein Harod kibbutz near the town of Afula. A security guard who happened to be present then shot and wounded the attacker.
Police later went into a hospital to arrest the 37-year-old suspect, who they said is a Palestinian from the nearby occupied West Bank.
According to the military, the man had been in Israel illegally for several days. Hospital doctors described his injuries as serious but not life-threatening.
Despite an overall increase in violence since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, such fatal incidents are less common in northern Israel than in the West Bank, where around 700,000 Israeli settlers live among 3 million Palestinians in settlements considered illegal under international law.
