Man killed in stabbing attack in central Israel, Palestinian arrested

Magen David Adom paramedics found the victim unconscious and without a pulse at a bus stop in the area and transferred him to Belinson Medical Center in critical condition while conducting resuscitation efforts. The victim passed away at the hospital.The suspect, a 46-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank, stabbed a 39-year-old Israel and then ran from the scene towards Segula Junction where he was arrested by police. Later, he was handed over to the Shin Bet and was interrogated. The background of the incident is still unclear. According to Ynet, the suspect had a work permit and is from a town near Nablus.

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“We found the victim laid out next to a bus with no pulse and not breathing with multiple stab wounds to his upper torso,” said Hezki Farkash, an official in the motorcycle unit of MDA Hatzalah in Petah Tikva. “We carried out resuscitation efforts and attempted to stop the bleeding and transferred him in a MDA intensive care vehicle as he was in critical condition.””I arrived at the scene after the stabbing when I saw a citizen chasing the stabber,” said Kobi Fuchs, a Petah Tikva resident, to Maariv, The Jerusalem Post‘s sister paper. “The citizen shouted ‘terrorist’ and knocked him down. The stabber didn’t manage to run far. The police came and arrested him.”