Tel Aviv, 12 stabbed in bus attack
Tel Aviv
(AsiaNews / Agencies) - Israeli police wounded and arrested a person who had
stabbed 12 passengers on a bus in the town center. The assailant is a young man
of 23 from the West Bank city of Tulkarem who had entered Israel illegally.
The number 40 bus was traveling down Menachem Begin Road, when the young man attacked
some passengers inside. Then he tried to escape, wounding still more, and was
shot in the leg by guards nearby. Four of the injured are in a serious
condition. Police are treating this as a "terrorist attack".
Following the Gaza war last summer, there have been several terrorist attacks
carried out by "lone wolves", in short individuals not belonging to
groups or organizations.
Last November, in Tel Aviv, an Israeli soldier was killed in a knife attack and
a woman killed at the bus stop in the West Bank. The increased tension
coincided with mounting tensions and protests by Jewish settlers who wanted to
pray (and occupy) the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in violation of the status quo
of the city.
At the same time, in recent months, al Qaeda and Isis there have frequently
called on Muslims to strike people and structures that are the enemy of Islam as
"lone wolves".
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18/06/2008
