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The attacker drove into people and then carried out a stabbing several miles away, police say<\/p>\n
Two people have been killed in what police say was a “rolling terror attack” in northern Israel.<\/p>\n
Police said the attacker ran over a pedestrian in the eastern city of Beit Shean, then drove on before stabbing a woman near Ein Harod, about 8 miles (12.5km) to the west. The suspect was eventually shot and wounded by a civilian outside the city of Afula, according to police.<\/p>\n
Shimshon Mordechai, a 68-year-old man, was killed and a 16-year-old boy was hurt in Friday’s ramming, officials said, while the stabbing victim was Aviv Maor, aged 18.<\/p>\n
A day before the attack, an Israeli reservist was fired after video emerged of him ramming a praying Palestinian with a quad bike. <\/p>\n
The suspect in the attack came from the village of Qabatiya, in the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was preparing to carry out an operation in the Qabatiya area. Katz said he had instructed the IDF to act “forcefully and immediately”. <\/p>\n
The IDF said the suspect had “infiltrated into Israeli territory several days ago”.<\/p>\n
Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster said the 37-year-old man had been working illegally in Israel and had used his employer’s vehicle in the attack.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed “deepest condolences” to the victims’ families.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, he also praised “the heroic citizen who neutralised the terrorist”.<\/p>\n
The incident comes a day after the army reservist drove a quad bike into a Palestinian man who was praying on a roadside in the West Bank.<\/p>\n
Video shows the man, dressed in civilian clothes but with a firearm, ramming the victim with the vehicle. Reports say the victim was unhurt. <\/p>\n
The Israeli military said the soldier – who had earlier opened fire in a nearby village – had been fired and his weapon confiscated.<\/p>\n