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7 injured in ramming-stabbing attack in Tel Aviv; terrorist killed by armed civilian

Palestinian rams truck into pedestrians, gets out and begins stabbing spree; civilian who shot him: ‘I prayed gun would fire or else I was dead’; wounded pregnant woman loses child.


July 4, 2023, Tel Aviv, Israel- Seven people were wounded, four of them seriously, in a car-ramming and stabbing terror attack in northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon, police and medics said.

According to police, the Palestinian assailant rammed his pickup truck into people on a sidewalk on Pinchas Rosen Street, then got out and stabbed others.

He was shot dead by an armed civilian.

Police spokesman Eli Levy said the incident was a terror attack.

Four of the victims were listed in serious and moderate-to-serious condition, the nearby Ichilov and Beilinson hospitals said. Another three were listed in moderate and good-to-moderate condition. One person was also brought to Ichilov after suffering acute anxiety.

One of the injured was a pregnant woman. She lost her child due to the severe wounds she suffered in the attack, Hebrew media reports said. It wasn’t immediately clear how advanced her pregnancy was.

The woman was hospitalized in serious condition.

A 30-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach, causing severe wounds, and rushed to Beilinson hospital for surgery.

Surveillance camera footage showed the moment the terrorist slammed into pedestrians at a bus stop. Moments later he was seen emerging from the vehicle and rushing at and stabbing passers-by and people who were sitting outside at a nearby cafe.

Another video clip circulating on social media showed an armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet shooting the assailant with a handgun multiple times, as well as kicking away a knife from his hand.

Kobi Yekutiel, the civilian who shot the attacker, told police, “I parked my motorcycle at the bus stop. As I was leaving the bus stop, I heard a loud noise. I thought it was a traffic accident.”

“The terrorist chased me. I shot him and he fell. My legs were shaking. I was praying that the bullet would fire, because if it didn’t I was dead,” he said.

Later, speaking to Channel 12, Yekutiel elaborated: “I saw him come out [of the car] with a knife — someone huge, big, a really frightening person — and stab the first person he met near the car. I thought it’s a fight between drivers.”

But then, he said, the penny dropped as the terrorist “left the victim and started running at others to stab them… I pulled out the gun, he saw me. He started running toward me. There was another elderly man near me. I took a few steps back to cock the gun. As he came near me I took him out. He still didn’t fall. He continued to try to stab the man who was by me… so I hit him with another shot, and then he sat down and I took him out with two more bullets.”

Witnesses to the attack expressed shock at the violence on the quiet street.

“I was behind the building and I heard a few gunshots,” a witness named Lee told Channel 12. “It’s a new area. There are restaurants and cafes. Two meters from the attack there’s a big kindergarten.”

A worker at a restaurant in the area told Channel 12, “We heard a boom. We thought it was a traffic accident. Then we heard gunshots and hid.”

“These are scenes you don’t expect to see. We evacuated the victims quickly,” said a medic with the Hatzalah emergency services group.

The Shin Bet security agency said the terrorist who carried out the attack did not have an entry permit to Israel.

The agency in a statement named the terrorist as Abed al-Wahab Khalaila, 20, from the West Bank town of as-Samu, in the South Hebron Hills area.

Earlier reports by Hebrew-language media incorrectly named him as Hussein Khalaila, 23, apparently a relative who did have a permit to enter Israel for medical care.

The Shin Bet said Khalaila had no known prior security offenses.

Hebrew media reports said he had been employed in Tel Aviv, and had used his employer’s car for the attack. Haaretz said he told his employer he was going out to buy supplies before the attack.

It wasn’t immediately clear how he had been working in Israel, without an entry permit.

The Hamas terror group said Khalaila was a member but stopped short of claiming responsibility for the attack.

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Kobi Yekutiel, who shot dead the terrorist in a Tel Aviv ramming and stabbing attack, speaks to Kan news, July 4, 2023.

[GoryMan]

I'm glad the old dude killed that scum

[Mufasa7]

Some of those shots were execution style hehe. In Israel a Jewish bro won't get charged if the other bro is an Arab

[pistachio81]

He definitely fucking suffered before going on his trip to suck cocks in hell

[Trucked up]

An armed man on a motorcycle. Hmmm, imagine that.

[HIGHTECHDUDE]

Probably failed his anger management class.

[-NocturnalPulse-]

Dumb motherfucker. Everyone carries guns in Israel.

[Mr.NoCredit]

Originally Posted by -NocturnalPulse- ↗

Dumb motherfucker. Everyone carries guns in Israel.

Someone piss in your Cornflakes this morning!?

Have a better day NP.

[mothmon]

Palestinians just aren't very good at the terrorist thing, are they? How long did this guy last on his rampage before he got shot down like a dirty dog? Ten, fifteen seconds? Even that pathetic Pakistani suicide bomber bimbo managed to take out at least one. Very nice (but all too brief) shot of the idiot's agonal breathing