Two Israelis were wounded, one seriously, in a stabbing on Tuesday afternoon at the entrance to a police station in the northern city of Karmiel, the Israel Police announced.
The motivation for the attack, which was first reported as a criminal incident, was not immediately clear with the police saying in a later statement that all possible motives were being investigated.
The perpetrator, identified as a resident of the nearby Arab village of Nahf in his 20s, was arrested after a search, according to the statement.
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency response group said that the seriously wounded victim, reportedly the station’s security guard, was evacuated by ambulance to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
The second victim, who Ynet said was a police officer who came to the guard’s aid, was lightly wounded and received treatment at the scene.
In July, an Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed and another seriously wounded in a terrorist stabbing in a shopping center in Karmiel. Police identified the terrorist as Jawwad Omar Rubia, also a resident of Nahf.
