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Israel bus attack: Tel Aviv passengers stabbed Israel bus attack: Tel Aviv passengers stabbed
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Israeli police say they have shot an attacker who stabbed at least nine people on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Israeli police say they have shot a Palestinian man from the West Bank who stabbed at least nine people in an attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv.
The stabbing incident occurred on the Maariv bridge, police said, adding that the stabbings took place both in and outside the bus. The incident occurred on Maariv bridge where the suspect attacked people both on and outside the bus, police said.
At least two of the victims were in a critical condition, media reports said. Police say they are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
The perpetrator attempted to flee the scene following the attack, and was lightly wounded after being shot in the leg, a police spokeswoman said.The perpetrator attempted to flee the scene following the attack, and was lightly wounded after being shot in the leg, a police spokeswoman said.
Police were treating the incident as a suspected "terror attack", police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on his Twitter account. At least three of the victims are said to be in a serious condition.
Officers were patrolling the area to prevent further attacks, he added. Officers are patrolling the area to prevent further attacks, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on his Twitter account.
The street around the Maariv bridge has been closed.The street around the Maariv bridge has been closed.
In November, an Israeli soldier was killed in a knife attack in Tel Aviv, while an Israeli woman was stabbed to death in the occupied West Bank in a separate attack. "The suspect is a 23-year-old Palestinian from Tulkarem," police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
Tulkarem is a town in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli police say there has been a pattern established in recent months where individual Palestinians, without sophisticated weapons, have attacked civilians at random, the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem reports.
In November, an Israeli soldier was killed in a knife attack in Tel Aviv, while an Israeli woman was stabbed to death in the West Bank in a separate attack.
Our correspondent says the latest round of tensions began to increase last year, after the summer conflict in Gaza and disputes over access to religious sites in the old city of Jerusalem.
More than 2,100 people were killed in Gaza during the Israel-Gaza conflict, a majority of them thought to be civilians.
Sixty-seven Israeli soldiers, and six civilians in Israel, were also killed.