A Moroccan national with a U.S. green card stabbed and injured four people Tuesday in a terrorist attack in Israel before being shot and killed, officials said.
Abdelaziz Kaddi, 29, went on a rampage attacking four men aged 24 to 59 in Tel Aviv, reports the Times of Israel.
Kaddi, who held a U.S. permanent resident card, entered Israel on Jan. 18 on a tourist visa, Israeli officials said.
Israeli police say the attack took place Tuesday evening in the Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood of Tel Aviv, with witnesses reporting that Kaddi was killed by an armed civilian.
Tel Aviv District Commander Asst.-Ch. Haim Sargaroff told reporters that Kaddi appeared to act alone and that there was no evidence that another terrorist was involved in the attack, the Jerusalem Post reported..
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of the victims, aged 24 and 28, were in moderate condition, while a 24-year-old woman and a 59-year-old were in good condition.
Officials say they are investigating the attack and Kaddi’s movements after arriving in Israel. The case is being treated as a terrorist attack.
Tuesday’s mass stabbing attacks were just the latest such attack on Israeli soil that has occurred regularly since the October 7 terrorist attack.
Last October, six people were injured after an Israeli Arab riding a moped engaged in a stabbing attack in the town of Hadera.
The suspect drove around the city and attacked passers-by at four different locations before being shot dead by armed civilians.
Smaller-scale attacks have also been regularly reported, including one on Saturday where a 19-year-old Palestinian illegally entered Israel via the West Bank and stabbed a 30-year-old man in Tel Aviv.
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