A car driven by a Palestinian who entered Israel illegally struck and injured at least 14 pedestrians at Karkur Junction near the northern town of Pardes-Hanna-Karkur, in what police said on Thursday was a terror attack. Medics first reported that 10 people were injured in the attack, among them a 17-year-old young woman in critical condition, two in serious condition, one in moderate condition and the rest lightly injured. One of the injured is a police officer who took part in the suspect’s arrest.
Police said it caught the driver about four kilometers from the scene of the attack in a shopping center near Kibbutz Gan Shmuel, adding that he was neutralized by officers while attempting to ram a police car.
Police later identified the attacker as a 53-year-old Palestinian from a village near Jenin in the northern West Bank, who is married to an Arab Israeli woman from the Umm al-Fahm, adding that he entered Israel illegally. However, the IDF said that the suspect has been living inside Israel illegally for at least a decade and did not re-enter the West Bank in the last few years. past ten years.
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