A Moroccan national with a US green card stabbed and wounded four people in a terror attack in Israel on Tuesday before he was shot dead, officials said.
Abdelaziz Kaddi, 29, went on a rampage attacking four men between the ages of 24 to 59 in Tel Aviv, the Times of Israel reports.
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Kaddi, who held a US permanent resident card, had entered Israel on Jan. 18 with a tourist visa, Israeli officials said.
Israeli police say the attack happened in Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin neighborhood Tuesday evening, with witnesses reporting that Kaddi was killed by an armed civilian.
Tel Aviv District Commander Asst.-Ch. Haim Sargaroff told reporters that Kaddi appeared to act alone and there was no evidence of another terrorist in the attack, The Jerusalem Post reports.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of the victims, aged 24 and 28, were listed in moderate condition, with a 24-year-old and a 59-year-old listed in good condition.
Officials say they are investigating the attack and Kaddi’s movements after arriving in Israel. The case is being treated as a terror attack.
Tuesday’s mass stabbing was only the latest such attack on Israeli soil that have been occurring regularly since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
Last October, six people were wounded after a moped-riding Arab Israeli went on a stabbing spree in the city of Hadera.
