An Israel Border Police officer was killed and 10 people were wounded on Sunday afternoon in a combined shooting and stabbing near the central bus station in Beersheva, according to police and medics.
“A report was received at Magen David Adom’s 101 emergency call center in the Negev region of casualties near the central bus station in Beersheva,” said MDA in a statement.
MDA medics evacuated 10 victims to the city’s Soroka Medical Center, including one with moderate to serious wounds, four who sustained moderate wounds and five who were lightly wounded.
Border Police Sgt. Shira Chaya Suslik, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Israel Police announced on Sunday night.
The terrorist rampage took place in three locations: the central bus station, outside a nearby fast-food restaurant and on Shmaryahu Levin Street, where the terrorist was shot and killed.
The Israel Police announced that “the terrorist has been neutralized and many police forces of the southern district are on the scene.” Security forces were searching for possible accomplices to the attack, it said.
The slain terrorist was identified as Ahmad al-Uqbi, 29, from an Israeli Bedouin community near the town of Lakiya. Al-Uqbi had a criminal record, and was reportedly related to Muhanad Alukabi, who carried out a deadly shooting at the same Beersheva bus station on Oct. 18, 2015.
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Israel has been on high alert in recent days as security forces fear that terrorist groups will carry out attacks to mark the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 cross-border massacre in southern Israel.
On Tuesday, Palestinian terrorists from Hebron shot dead seven people in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Police said two gunmen exited a light rail train car and opened fire on people waiting at a station on Jerusalem Boulevard.
In March, an Israel Defense Forces officer was moderately wounded in a stabbing at Beersheva’s central bus station. The terrorist was shot and killed by another soldier who was on the scene, according to the IDF.
