The perpetrator of the stabbing attack in Beersheba died from his severe wounds (social networking sites)

Two Israelis were injured on Sunday in a stabbing attack at the central bus station in the city of Beersheba in the Negev, while the perpetrator was martyred after being shot by Israeli police.

The Israeli police said that two injured people were transferred to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba following the stabbing, adding that the perpetrator died of serious injuries.

Earlier today, the Israeli ambulance said that an Israeli was injured in his back after being stabbed by a person who was shot and seriously injured at the central bus station in Beersheba.

Immediately after the operation, the Israeli police said that its motives were still unclear, but they suggested that it occurred against a security background.

According to eyewitnesses, a person began stabbing passers-by inside the station, and managed to stab at least one person before shooting him.

#watched | From the scene of the stabbing at the bus station in occupied Beersheba pic.twitter.com/NbJEXGQSTw

- Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) March 31, 2024

Israeli media reported that the perpetrator of the attack was from the city of Rahat in the Negev.

Two weeks ago, an Israeli soldier with the rank of first sergeant in the Nahal Brigade was killed and another Israeli was injured in a stabbing attack in a café at the entrance to Kibbutz Beit Kama, north of the city of Beersheba.

In light of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for nearly 6 months, stabbing and shooting operations have occurred in the past weeks in the occupied West Bank and inside the Green Line targeting soldiers and settlers and resulting in deaths and injuries. The Palestinian resistance factions considered them a natural response to what the Israeli occupation forces are committing. in Gaza.

Source: Al Jazeera