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Tel Aviv bus attack: Israeli police shoot suspect who 'stabbed at least nine people' in terror attack Tel Aviv bus attack: Israeli police shoot suspect who 'stabbed at least nine people' in terror attack
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Israeli police have shot an attacker reported to have stabbed 12 people on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Israeli police have shot an attacker reported to have stabbed up to 12 people on a bus in central Tel Aviv.
At least four of the victims are in a "serious condition", Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. At least three of the victims are in a "serious condition", Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
The stabbing took place on the Ma'ariv bridge, police said, and the attacks happened inside and outside of the bus.The stabbing took place on the Ma'ariv bridge, police said, and the attacks happened inside and outside of the bus.
An Israeli police officer secures the scene after a stabbing in Tel Aviv Israeli emergency services personnel clean the sidewalk at the scene of an attack
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the assailant - believed to be a 23-year-old man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, who entered Israel illegally - was shot and lightly wounded in the leg after trying to escape. He has been taken into custody.Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that the assailant - believed to be a 23-year-old man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem, who entered Israel illegally - was shot and lightly wounded in the leg after trying to escape. He has been taken into custody.
At least four of the victims were in a 'serious condition', it was reported, after a bus stabbing in Tel Aviv
Officials are treating the incident as a "terror attack", police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Twitter.Officials are treating the incident as a "terror attack", police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said on Twitter.
He said that the area around the bridge had been closed and officers were patrolling the area to "prevent any further attack". He said that the area around the bridge had been closed and officers were patrolling the area to "prevent any further attack", which took place during morning rush hour.
Israeli medics transport a Palestinian man on a gurney who is believed to have stabbed and wounded at least five passengers in an attack on a Tel Aviv bus
An official police statement said: "The terrorist stabbed the bus driver several times but the driver fought back until he [the suspect] fled on foot and was neutralised by a guard from the prisons' service."An official police statement said: "The terrorist stabbed the bus driver several times but the driver fought back until he [the suspect] fled on foot and was neutralised by a guard from the prisons' service."
The attack occurred during morning rush hour. An Israeli man receives medical treatment from medics after he was stabbed by a Palestinian who wounded at least five passengers in a stabbing rampage on a Tel Aviv bus
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the Palestinian Authority for the attack, saying it was a "direct result of the Palestinian Authority's venomous incitement against the Jews and their state". He said in a statement: "The same terror tries to hurt us in Paris, Brussels and everywhere."
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman added: "It's all part of the same process of undermining Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state."
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, described the attack as a "heroic act," according to Haaretz.
Passers-by stand behind a police tape at the scene of a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv
"The attack carried out this morning is a bold, heroic act and a natural response to the crimes of the occupation and terrorism against the Palestinian people," he is reported to have said.
There have been a series of 'lone-wolf' terror attacks in East Jerusalem and the West Bank since the end of the war in Gaza last summer.
Two weeks ago, a young Jewish man in Jerusalem was stabbed in the back with a screwdriver, and in November, four rabbis and a policeman were killed in a frenzied attack on a synagogue in Har Nof.
In the same month, an Israel Defense Forces soldier was stabbed and killed in a terror attack near the Haganah train station in south Tel Aviv.
Additional reporting by ReutersAdditional reporting by Reuters