The security services are on high alert.. 4 Israelis were killed in a run-down and stabbing operation in Beersheba, and the perpetrator was martyred

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- 4 Israelis, a man and 3 women, were killed, and others were injured in a run-down and stabbing attack, Tuesday evening, in the city of Beersheba, while the attacker was shot dead by a bus driver.

The Israeli media reported that the perpetrator of the attack was Ahmed Ghaleb Ahmed Abu Al-Qia’an, 33, from the town of Hura in the Negev. What Haaretz newspaper reported.

Following the double operation, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held consultations with the heads of the security services, Internal Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev, and police chief Kobi Shabtai.

Bennett declared that the Israeli security forces are on high alert, and vowed to pursue and punish all those who stand behind such operations, while praising the citizen who killed the perpetrator of the Beersheba operation.

In a brief statement, the Israeli Prime Minister said, "The security forces, which are on high alert, will act forcefully against terrorist operations. We will follow up and arrest those who provided them with assistance," adding that "civilians who shot the terrorist who carried out the attack showed courage and prevented the occurrence of the attack." More victims.

Video clips showed that two people who were at the scene of the operation pursued the perpetrator, as one of them shot him, which led to him being critically wounded and later dying.

According to the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper's website, the double operation began around 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, when police received a report about a female gas station worker who was found unconscious after being stabbed, and shortly thereafter she died.

The freed prisoner, Muhammad Ghaleb Abu Al-Qia'an (social networking sites)

The ambulance forces received a second report that a man ran over and stabbed a group of pedestrians in a shopping center in Beersheba. others.

The investigations of the Israeli security services indicate that the perpetrator of the attack, Abu Al-Qia’an, a former teacher at Hura High School, was a former security prisoner. He was arrested in early 2015 for allegedly participating in the formation of the Islamic State in Hura.

On June 28, 2015, an indictment was filed against Abu Al-Qia’an at the Beersheba District Court, for allegedly participating in a meeting of an unauthorized organization, conspiracy to commit a crime, initiating an activity in an illegal association, attempting to leave the country illegally towards Syria, and a ruling He was sentenced to 4 years in prison, and was released in 2019.

The Israeli police initially said that they investigated whether the incident was about a criminal incident and a conflict between Bedouin clans, but later announced that it was a "terrorist attack" on a nationalist background.

And videos documented by the surveillance cameras at the mall showed that the perpetrator of the run-down and stabbing operation was pursued and surrounded by citizens, as a bus driver pounced on him, pointing his pistol at him for a few seconds, while passers-by encouraged him to shoot him and shouted "Give him", and shot the young man. From behind, he hit him in the back several times and killed him instantly.

The operation comes at a time when the Israeli establishment has escalated the targeting of Bedouins in the Negev by demolishing homes, plowing and harassing their lands, prosecuting them with arrests and bringing them to court, while announcing the formation of an armed Jewish militia in the Negev called “Bar’el Brigade”, a militia set up by an activist in the fascist “Otzma Yehudit” party. With the support of the Israeli police and the municipality of Beersheba, claiming to "save the Negev from the problem of personal insecurity."

In this context, the security establishment expressed its concern about the deterioration of the security situation in light of the "escalating tension and unique operations" in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem before Easter and Ramadan, and warned against the escalation of events in the Palestinian interior towns, similar to what happened in the events of Heba Al Karama in May Past.