Overview
- Police described a rolling ramming-and-stabbing in the Beit She'an–Route 71 area that left a 68-year-old man and a young woman dead and a 16-year-old boy lightly injured.
- Officials said the attacker was from the West Bank town of Qabatiya and was shot by a civilian and engaged by security forces near Afula as he fled.
- Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered the military to act forcefully against what he called terrorist infrastructure in Qabatiya, with the IDF saying it is preparing an operation and reinforcing the seam line.
- In a separate incident, video showed an Israeli reservist in civilian clothes driving into a Palestinian man praying by a West Bank road after earlier firing shots; the IDF called it a severe violation, terminated his service and confiscated his weapon.
- Reuters reported the reservist is under house arrest and that the Palestinian man was checked at a hospital and returned home unhurt, with UN-cited data situating both episodes in a sustained surge of West Bank violence since Oct. 7, 2023.