Two people were killed, and two others were wounded on Sunday morning in a terrorist stabbing attack on Moshe Dayan Street in Holon, Israel’s emergency medical service, Magen David Adom (MDA) reported.
A policeman who happened to be in the area shot and killed the terrorist.
One of the murdered victims was Rina Daniv, a 66-year-old woman, and the other murdered victim was a man in his 80s. Daniv’s husband, Shimon, 69, is seriously injured. Additionally, a 26-year-old man is in moderate condition in the attack, according to the MDA. The paramedics took the three wounded to the Wolfson Medical Center.
The terrorist was from the West Bank
The terrorist, 34-year-old Amar Razak Kamel Odeh, was a resident of the Palestinian city Salfit in the West Bank, and was in Israel without a residence permit.
Interim police commissioner Avshalom Peled arrived at the scene of the attack following the incident, Israel Police stated. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is also making his way to the scene. Upon arriving at the scene, Ben-Gvir said “The war is in our streets. Let’s fight.”
Testimony from a survivor of the attack
Yaakov Levertov, who was stabbed in the shoulder by the terrorist, told Kann “I saw the terrorist coming from an open area with an angry face. He looked at me and I ignored him. He ran in my direction, grabbed me and stabbed me in the shoulder.”
יעקב לברטוב שנפצע בפיגוע בחולון: “ראיתי את המחבל מגיע משטח פתוח עם פרצוף כועס. הוא הסתכל עליי והתעלמתי. הוא רץ לכיווני, תפס אותי ודקר אותי בכתף”@OferHalfonKan pic.twitter.com/NZ5HuLVpii
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) August 4, 2024
Israel Police spokesman Eli Levy said: “I call on the public to be vigilant these days that the State of Israel is under dozens of alerts for terrorist attacks and wild incitement to terrorism on social media.” He also called on the public who has been permitted and trained to carry a weapon and received all the approvals to do so to have it on their person at all times.
National Unity Party leader MK Benny Gantz posted on X, noting his “condolences to the family of the 70-year-old woman in the attack in Holon. I pray for the recovery of all those wounded and call to strengthen the members of the security forces and our soldiers who operate at all borders and beyond them – to prevent terrorism and to strike at its perpetrators.”
MDA Ayalon Region Deputy Director Paramedic Rami Meushar and Medicycle Unit Senior EMT Eran Carmel said that those wounded in the attack “were in three separate locations, approximately 500 meters away from each other.”
A Ynet report stated that Odeh began the stabbing spree in the park behind a gas station on Moshe Dayan Street. The stabbing took place in three locations: one was at the entrance to the park, the second was at a bus stop near the gas station, and the third was at the entrance to a bus parking lot on Dan Shomron Street.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.
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