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Wednesday 21 Jan 2015 - 23:43 Makkah mean time-1-4-1436 Tel Aviv (IINA) - A Palestinian man has stabbed 13 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested. Israeli police described Wednesday's assault as a "terrorist attack", and the Palestinian group Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, praised it.
The man was shot in the leg by a prison security officer travelling in a separate vehicle, who saw the man trying to escape, police said. Tel Aviv police commander BentziSau confirmed 10 people had been injured. He said the assailant was a West Bank resident who stabbed the driver and then attacked passengers shortly after boarding the bus. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the Palestinian was a 23-year-old resident of the West Bank town of Tulkarm, Reuters reported.
A doctor at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital told Army Radio that seven people had been admitted for treatment. “Shortly after he boarded the bus, the assailant stabbed the driver several times but there was an excellent response from him as he resisted the attack and in this way the terrorist was stunned,” Sau told reporters at the scene. Sau said a vehicle with prison officers travelling close by saw the attack and officers gave chase. They caught the man in a nearby street and shot him in the leg as he tried to escape.
Video aired by Israel's Channel 10 TV showed the attacker running in the street and stabbing a woman as he tried to escape. Police confirmed that Matroukh stabbed a woman as he attempted to flee. Police identified the assailant as Hamza Mohammed Matroukh, a 23-year-old Palestinian resident of the occupied West Bank who had entered Israel illegally. Police said he confessed to the stabbing, saying he carried it out in response to last year's Gaza war and tensions surrounding a Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims.
The stabbing was the latest in a string of incidents in the past few months at a time of heightened tension between Palestinians and Israelis, particularly in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel seized the territories in a 1967 war and Palestinians want them for an independent state, along with Gaza.
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