{"id":263419,"date":"2026-01-29T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263419\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:23:10","slug":"new-footage-emerges-revealing-details-of-afula-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/263419\/","title":{"rendered":"New footage emerges, revealing details of Afula terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u05ea\u05d9\u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9 \u05de\u05d4\u05e4\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d1\u05e2\u05de\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd\u05dc\u05dc\u05d0 \u05e7\u05e8\u05d3\u05d9\u05d8<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The Northern District Prosecutor&#8217;s Office will file at the Nazareth District Court a serious indictment Thursday against terrorist Ahmad Abu al-Roub, a 34-year-old resident of Qabatiya in northern Samaria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">The indictment follows a terror attack last month in which Abu al-Roub <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/419946\" target=\"_blank\" data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">murdered two Israelis<\/a> and injured three others.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">It charges him with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">According to the findings of a Shabak (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police investigation, Abu al-Roub infiltrated Israel through a breach in the fence near Jerusalem a few days before the attack, and was employed in the construction industry by a 45-year-old resident of Arraba.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">On the day of the attack, he went with his employer and another resident to Kibbutz Mesilot, where he worked in plastering for 650-700 NIS per day.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">At some point, the terrorist took a knife and screwdriver from the construction site, stole his employer&#8217;s car, and began his killing spree. He first drove to Beit She&#8217;an, where he rammed and killed 68-year-old Shimshon Mordechai and lightly injured a 16-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">He then continued to the Tel Yosef Junction, where he stabbed 18-year-old Aviv Maor to death after attempting to attack other young people.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">From the junction, he continued to Afula, where he rammed a 37-year-old pedestrian, causing him moderate to severe injuries. A passerby who noticed what was happening engaged and neutralized the terrorist.<\/p>\n<p data-v-7e3a3ef3=\"\" data-v-e580db1b-s=\"\">Meanwhile, additional indictments were filed against two of Abu al-Roub&#8217;s brothers, who were staying in Israel illegally, as well as against his employer, a resident of Arraba, who employed him in violation of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u05ea\u05d9\u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9 \u05de\u05d4\u05e4\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5\u05e2 \u05d1\u05e2\u05de\u05e7\u05d9\u05dd\u05dc\u05dc\u05d0 \u05e7\u05e8\u05d3\u05d9\u05d8 The Northern District Prosecutor&#8217;s Office will file at the Nazareth District Court a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138209,85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-263419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-beit-she","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}