ISRAEL: Palestinian man stabs Israeli woman to death and wounds five other passengers on a minibus in central Israeli city of Petah Tikva

Record ID: 398573

  • Title: ISRAEL: Palestinian man stabs Israeli woman to death and wounds five other passengers on a minibus in central Israeli city of Petah Tikva
  • Date: 5th February 2006
  • Summary: CLOSE OF MINIBUS WHERE STABBING TOOK PLACE POLICE SEARCHING MINIBUS
  • Embargoed: 20th February 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAA2OQENWG1PFA364H9PRBH9M9N
  • Story Text: A Palestinian stabbed a woman to death and wounded five other passengers on a minibus in central Israel on Sunday (February 4), police and hospital officials said.
    Officials at Petah Tikva's Beilinson hospital said a woman was killed and five other people were wounded in the stabbing, which took place during the morning rush hour at the start of the Israeli work week.
    There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
    Police said they arrested the attacker. The Zaka emergency service identified him as a Palestinian.
    The attack came after Israel launched a missile strike targeting a car in Gaza City early on Sunday, killing three members of an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, and wounding five.
    It was Israel's first air attack on Palestinians since a Jan. 25 parliamentary election in which the Islamic militant group Hamas scored an upset victory over Abbas's Fatah party.
    The Israeli attacks also came after a rocket fired from Gaza destroyed an Israeli home on Friday wounding three people, including a baby. That attack was claimed by Islamic Jihad militants.
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