At least five people were wounded in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening.
A passerby who was carrying a firearm shot at the terrorist, killing him. An American passport was found on the terrorist's body showing that he entered Israel three days ago as a tourist.
Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that as many as eight people have been injured in a stabbing incident at two locations on Nahalat Binyamin Street and Kalisher Street in Tel Aviv. Medics and paramedics are providing medical treatment to four injured people, including two 24-year-olds, who are in moderate and light condition. The terrorist was eliminated.
MDA paramedic Shlomo Levi said, "At the scene we arrived at in Nahalat Binyamin, we saw two young men, about 24 years old, fully conscious, one with a penetration wound to his upper body and the other in his hand. We provided them with initial medical treatment, which included stopping life-threatening bleeding, and evacuated them in ambulances and intensive care vehicles to the hospital."
MDA paramedic Dor Kaufman added: "We noticed a 28-year-old man with stab wounds to his upper body near Shalom Meir Tower. We provided him with initial medical treatment to stabilize his condition and evacuated him to the hospital in moderate and stable condition."
An eyewitness who was in the area of the shooting told Channel 12 News: "We heard a burst of gunfire, we saw people running, and then we ran into the bathroom. We went out for a moment to make sure it wasn't a motorcycle noise, we heard another bang - and we ran to the nearby shelter. In the meantime, we heard a lot of vehicles."
The police have called on people not to approach the scene of the attack, in order to conduct searches and ensure that there were no accomplices or another terrorist in the area.
Interior Minister Moshe Arbel later revealed that the Population and Immigration Authority identified the terrorist who committed the stabbing attack in real-time and sought to prevent his entry into Israel upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, and transferred him for questioning by security officials who decided to allow his entry into Israel.
"I call on Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar to investigate the serious incident and draw lessons from it as soon as possible," said Arbel.