A woman has died and at least 17 other people have been injured this Monday in a multiple attack that authorities consider a Palestinian terrorist act in the Israeli city of Ranana, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Hamas, late in the afternoon, claimed responsibility. Israel has not yet commented on it.
The police do confirm, however, that the deceased person is a woman in her 70s. Three other people remain “serious” with injuries to the head and body. Among the injured are also children and adolescents.
Local media cite the arrest of two suspects, two residents of Hebron, in the West Bank, related to each other: Mohamed Zaidat, 44, and Ahmed Zaidat, 24. Apparently both worked in the industrial zone of the city illegal”. But the place is being inspected for other possible suspects.
According to the first accounts, one of the two detainees first stabbed several pedestrians in Ranana. And his partner, at the same time, stole a car and carried out a massive attack on pedestrians.
A witness told the newspaper Maariv that at first he thought “it was an accident. Another person was with me, realized the situation and shouted ‘an attack, an attack’. “Then I saw the terrorist stabbing a man in his 60s.”
It is believed, however, that the suspects used up to three vehicles. The alleged attacker allegedly stabbed a driver, stole his vehicle and used it to run over more pedestrians on Hacharoshet Street in Ranana. Later he himself would have gotten another vehicle to be able to continue attacking another group of people on Ahuza Street, which is the main road in the municipality, local media explain.
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