CAR RAMMING. Authorities cordon off the site of the incident in a commercial area of northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday (July 4, 2023). Seven people were injured in the car ramming and stabbing incident. (Photo by Yossi Zeliger/TPS)
JERUSALEM – Seven people were injured in Tel Aviv when a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in a commercial area of northern Tel Aviv on Tuesday.
The driver was shot and killed when he got out of his car and tried to stab people.
The victims were evacuated to the Beilinson and Ichilov Hospitals. Three were in serious condition, two in moderate condition, and two in mild condition.
“We arrived at the scene with a large force of MDA intensive care vehicles and ambulances. We saw that it was very serious, and near a bus stop there were five injured people, including a 46-year-old woman was lying on the sidewalk while she was conscious and suffering from severe trauma,” said Magen David Adom, a responding medic.
The terrorist was identified as 23-year-old Abed al-Wahab Khalila from the Palestinian village of Samua, near Hebron.
It was not immediately clear if he was affiliated with any Palestinian terror group.
The attack came as Israeli security forces were engaged in a wide-scale counter-terror operation in Jenin.
Hamas praised the Tel Aviv attack as a “first response to the operation in Jenin.” (TPS)
