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Haifa, Israel -- One person is dead and four others were injured on Monday when a 20-year-old Druze Israeli began stabbing people at a central transit hub.
The Times of Israel reported that the killer suffered from mental illness [known as anti-Semitism evidently] the family said.
The knife attack is being treated as a “militant attack,” according to Fox News. Fortunately, a security guard and an unarmed civilian killed the attacker as the Mayor of Boston sent out her heart felt condolences to his family. It was reported that the attacker had recently returned to Israel after spending time abroad.
“My wife Sara and I extend our deepest condolences to the family of the victim of the horrific terrorist attack in Haifa, and we send our wishes for a speedy recovery to the injured,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement after the attack. “We will continue to fight those who seek to harm us – wherever they are – and we will defeat them.”
The sole casualty was a 70-year-old man who was stabbed in the back multiple times, the Times reported. Hassan Karim Dahamsheh was a resident of the Arab town of Kafr Kanna in Israel. In addition, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed and is in stable condition while a woman in her 70s and a man and woman in their 30s were also stabbed but were hospitalized with less serious wounds.
An eyewitness told a local outlet that the 20-year-old got off a bus from Shfar’am and shouted “Allahu Akbar” [Allah is greater] and began attacking people around him with a knife.
The sole casualty was a 70-year-old man who was stabbed in the back multiple times, the Times reported. Hassan Karim Dahamsheh was a resident of the Arab town of Kafr Kanna in Israel. In addition, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed and is in stable condition while a woman in her 70s and a man and woman in their 30s were also stabbed but were hospitalized with less serious wounds.
An eyewitness told a local outlet that the 20-year-old got off a bus from Shfar’am and shouted “Allahu Akbar” [Allah is greater] and began attacking people around him with a knife.
Israel Police Chief Daniel Levy said police were working to confirm that the attacker acted alone, the Times reported. The outlet also noted that police raided the suspect’s home and were questioning his family who claimed their son was mentally ill, which naturally takes the onus off them.
Shfar’am Mayor Nahad Hazem told the Kan public broadcaster that two of the five victims were from his city and that one was a relative of his office director.
“It is a heinous crime, and I completely condemn it,” he told the outlet.
The killer’s relatives denied that he was a terrorist, saying he had a mental illness and asked that they try not to think about the "Allahu Akbar" shouting.
“I am a disabled IDF veteran and his other uncle is a reserve soldier. We have nothing in our family hostile to the state,” his uncle Roni Kharis reportedly told Ynet.
The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, whose motto is, "Killing Jews is how we roll," praised the attack but did not take credit for it.
As the Times reported, the stabbing was the latest “in a string of terror attacks targeting public transportation in Israel, after a ramming attack at a bus stop on Thursday and a series of botched bus bombings near Tel Aviv a week earlier.” The botched bombings were due to the terrorist's inability to distinguish a.m. from p.m.
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