Overview
- Police say the multi-site assault began with a car-ramming in Beit Shean and continued with a fatal stabbing near Route 71 before the suspect was shot near Afula.
- The victims were identified as Aviv Maor, 19, and Shimshon Mordechai, 68, with Magen David Adom reporting a 16-year-old was lightly hurt.
- Authorities say a civilian intervened as security forces engaged the attacker, who was taken to a hospital; the IDF says he had crossed into Israel several days earlier.
- Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered forceful action targeting the suspect’s hometown of Qabatiya, as the military mobilized and prepared operations in the area.
- In separate incidents under investigation, an IDF reservist in civilian clothes was filmed running over a Palestinian man praying in the West Bank, and an Israeli-Bedouin citizen was killed by gunfire involving an IDF soldier and an armed civilian near the Egypt border.