Two Israeli settlers ‘seriously’ injured in stabbing attack in Haifa; another confirmed dead near Tel Aviv
Two Israeli settlers have been “seriously” injured in a stabbing attack in Haifa in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories, with the regime’s media reporting a fatality from an earlier attack near Tel Aviv.
The two settlers injured after a knife attack in Haifa on Thursday were reported to be aged 40 and 70.
Israel’s Hebrew media also reported that a settler died from injuries sustained on Wednesday in a stabbing attack in Hadera, some 45 kilometers north of Tel Aviv.
The knife attack in Hadera had occurred at multiple locations within the city and left six settlers injured, with two in “serious” condition.
The Hebrew newspaper Ma’ariv said the assailant fled the scene but was apprehended later, with Israeli media saying the attacker had an Israeli identity and was from the occupied city of Umm al-Fahm.
The Israeli-occupied territories have been on high alert since the regime launched a genocidal war on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
The brutal aggression has so far claimed the lives of more than 42,000 people and wounded at least 97,700 others, most of them women and children, in an incomplete toll as thousands of missing persons are still under the rubble.
The southern Gaza Strip has been almost razed to the ground and most its 2.3 million people have since been displaced, with humanitarian conditions being miserably in tatters.
