An Israeli was seriously wounded in a stabbing on Sunday evening in the town of Pardes Hanna in the Haifa District, the Israel Police said.
The motivation for the attack, which was initially reported as a criminal incident, was not immediately clear, with the police saying in a later statement that all possible motives were being taken into account.
According to the Ynet news outlet, authorities are investigating whether the stabbing in the city was a terror attack. The victim was said to have reported being stabbed by an Arab who subsequently fled the scene.
“Officers from the Zichron station are at the scene and have begun collecting evidence as part of the investigation that has been opened,” police stated. “The circumstances of the incident are being examined.”
Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency response group announced that its paramedics had evacuated the victim, a 36-year-old male, to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera in “serious and unstable condition.”
On May 3, security forces arrested a 16-year-old Arab Israeli who had planned to carry out a terrorist stabbing at the police station in Tira, a city in the Triangle, a concentration of Arab towns near the Green Line.
The teenager was detained after he approached officers from the Tira station and Border Police with a knife while yelling Allahu Akbar (Arabic for “God is great!”).
Officers “overpowered the minor while using a non-lethal weapon and arrested him on the spot,” the police said. The suspect, a resident of the city, was taken into the custody of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet).