Israeli authorities investigate the scene of one of the car stabbing attacks on Monday, January 15 in Ra’anana, Israel. TPS photo)
Two attackers believed to be Palestinian were arrested on Monday, January 15, after a “terrorist attack” that left one person dead and at least 17 others injured in the city, Israeli police said. Ra’anana, just north of Tel Aviv. Local authorities said a suspect stabbed a woman with a knife, stole the victim’s car, and then drove into many people in several different locations.
According to Fox News reporter Trey Yingst, the stabbing and car crash attack – for which Hamas claimed responsibility – left a woman seriously injured who later died at a local hospital. 17 other people were injured, including 3 seriously injured. Central District Commander Avi Biton later announced that two Palestinian suspects from the same family in the Hebron area of the West Bank who worked nearby had been arrested. Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence agency identified the suspects as Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, from Bnei Naim.
Eden Alfi, a witness to one of the car crashes, told Maariv newspaper, according to Israel’s The Jerusalem Post: “A friend walking on the street with me noticed the situation first and shouted ‘attack, attack. attack’. Then I saw the terrorist. I saw him stabbing a man about 60 years old. The man fell down and the terrorist ran away.”.
Commander Biton added that the suspects “went together and in parallel, went to two different locations, robbed two cars and then committed a series of car crashes”, Reuters said, the image was taken at one of the Scenes showed a heavily damaged white sedan, which appeared to have crashed into a bus stop. Schools in the area where the attack occurred were closed, the Jerusalem Post reported.
