Overview
- Police described a multi-site sequence starting in Beit She’an with a deadly car-ramming, followed by a fatal stabbing near Route 71 by Ein Harod, before the suspect was engaged near Afula.
- Paramedics pronounced a 68-year-old man and a young woman, identified as Aviv Maor of Ein Harod, dead at the scenes, and a 16-year-old boy was treated for minor injuries.
- Officers said a civilian intervened and the attacker was shot and taken to hospital, with the case labeled a preliminary “rolling terror attack.”
- Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to act “forcefully and immediately” in the attacker’s hometown of Qabatiya, and the military said it is preparing an operation and reinforcing the seam line.
- The military said the suspect entered Israel several days earlier, and officials are examining a reported breach in the separation barrier; separately, five settlers were arrested over an assault that injured an eight-month-old in Sair, and an Israeli reservist who rammed a Palestinian was removed from service.