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Jerusalem Post:

 

A Palestinian man from the West Bank stabbed several people Wednesday morning, in a suspected terror attack on the 40 bus line in central Tel Aviv.

At least four of the victims – including the bus driver – were listed in serious condition, while three others suffered moderate injuries and two were lightly hurt. Several more people suffered shock, according to Magen David Adom paramedics.

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The attack began at about 7am, as the bus was reaching the Maariv junction in the center of the city. Eyewitnesses and police said the attacker began stabbing the bus driver repeatedly in the upper body. The bus began swerving in its lane as the driver fought with the attacker. The driver, a veteran with over two decades on the job, even tried to use pepper spray on the man, who began then attacking other passengers, police said.

 

The swerving bus caught the attention of an Israel Prison Service “Nahshon Unit†team who were driving behind the bus on the way to the Tel Aviv courthouse to pick up detainees. When the bus came to a stop and passengers began fleeing, three of the IPS officers began to chase the attacker as he fled east through parking lots and alleyways towards HaMasger Street.

 

 

The IPS officers managed to shoot the attacker in the leg and neutralize him, placing him under arrest.

 

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Tel Aviv bus terrorist Hamza Matrouk

 

The Shin Bet named the terrorist as Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, born in 1992, who has no history of past offenses. The attacker is from Tulkarm, from where he set out on Wednesday morning, the domestic intelligence agency said.

 

During initial questioning, Matrouk said he carried out the stabbing spree after entering Israel illegally, and purchased the knife in Tulkarm.

He said he was driven by last summer's conflict in Gaza, unrest on the Temple Mount, and watching extremist Islamic content that glorifies "the reaching of heaven," the Shin Bet added.

 

The attacker was treated in hospital.

The terrorist screaming after he was shot in the leg and handcuffed (graphic)

 

 

 

One bystander, a man named Ezra Malfout working at a parking lot at the junction said he saw the attacker chase two wounded victims through the lot before fleeing from pursuing officers.

Blood was splattered intermittently along a few hundred meters of the crime scene, from where the attack first began, to where the victims lay waiting for paramedics on the sidewalks and in the surrounding parking lots.

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MDA paramedic Shai Pinhas, who arrived first at the scene of the attack, reported that he "saw a bus surrounded by tumult. There were wounded people walking around, some of them outside of the bus and two of them inside. Everyone was fully conscious but with stab wounds to the chest and extremities."

 

Yarkon police subdistrict Commander Yehuda Dahan said that their initial investigation indicates that the man boarded the 40 bus somewhere in the area of the old Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv and began his attack while the bus neared the Maariv junction. He said that at the moment it appears he acted alone, but they have not yet ruled out the possibility that he had accomplices.

 

Only an hour after it ended, Palestinian media was already praising the Tel Aviv bus stabbing that injured nine with cheerful cartoons.

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I know this sounds ridiculous. but this is one of the "easier" terror attacks we've had. Right now eveybody's worried about the bus driver, who's fighting for his life.

 

In other news, the caricatures are really nothing new. After every terror attack there are caricatures praising the act.

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