Two injured in attack in Israeli mall: Police
Two people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in a shopping mall in northern Israel’s Karmiel area, Israeli police said. Police called it a suspected terror attack and said the attacker was “neutralised”.
Israeli medics said they were treating two men in their 20s, one in a serious condition and the other fully conscious.
‘Impossible to separate attack in Israel from occupation’
It’s impossible to separate what happens inside Israel with regard to the stabbing attack from the dynamics of occupation in the West Bank or the war in Gaza.
Tensions have been rising and they have been reaching boiling point. The Israeli security establishment has been warning that the continued raids, settlers’ attacks, the appropriation of land – just today 13,000 square kilometres of Palestinian land was expropriated by Israel to make way for more settlers.
All this pushes Palestinians in despair and anger towards Israeli policies that push them out of their land and make their life unbearable, no matter where they are.
Israeli police arrest alleged mall attacker’s family members
Israeli police say they have identified the attacker, who they earlier reported was “neutralised”, as an Arab citizen of Israel from the town of Nahf.
Israeli media quoted the Karmiel police chief Yitzhak Abuhatzira as saying the members of the accused’s family have been arrested, including his mother, brother and sister.
The family members arrived at the scene of the attack and were blindfolded and arrested.
