Two Muslim terrorist Palestinians used three stolen vehicles to ram Israelis in the city of Ra’anana, which is just north of Tel Aviv. They killed an elderly woman and injured at least 17 people, including children.
The Muslim terrorists were working illegally in Israel and were apprehended after the attack.
Here’s more from the Times of Israel:
An elderly woman was killed and at least 17 people were injured, including at least seven children and teenagers, in a multipronged Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing terror attack in the central Israel city of Ra’anana early on Monday afternoon.
During the attack, the perpetrators — two West Bank Palestinians working in Israel illegally — seized at least three vehicles and rammed pedestrians in several locations in the city, also stabbing one or more of their victims, according to police, medics, and eyewitnesses.
Meir Hospital said a woman in her 70s, who arrived in critical condition, succumbed to her wounds. She was not immediately named.
The two suspects were named as Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidad, 44, both residents of the southern West Bank town of Bani Naim, close to Hebron. According to the Shin Bet, both had been blacklisted for entering Israel illegally numerous times in the past.
The attack occurred as schools were dismissing students for the day.
According to reports, one of the terrorists stabbed a driver on the city’s Haharoshet Street before stealing the car and driving it into three people.
The terrorist then got stuck and abandoned the car, before stealing a second vehicle and continuing on, driving down the central Ahuza Street and ramming into at least one other group of people, witnesses said.
“It all happened in a second,” a passerby who witnessed the start of the attack told Army Radio.
“We heard the noise of a crash, like a car bumping into another car,” Eden Arzi said. “We saw the driver go to stab a woman and she ran away, and [the driver] went and stabbed a 60-year-old man while there were a bunch of screams in the background, until he fell on the ground.”
Another witness told Haaretz: “I saw someone stab three people next to the mall, steal a car and run people over with it.”
Casualties from the attack were taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva and the adjacent Schneider Children’s Medical Center.
Magen David Adom said that the injured included at least two in serious condition — a man aged 34 and a 16-year-old boy — along with nine in moderate condition, and six who sustained light wounds.
The head of the police’s Central District, Deputy Commissioner Avi Bitton, said the attack was carried out by two Palestinian relatives from the Hebron area of the West Bank who had recently been working in the city’s industrial zone. They were in the country illegally.
Both the suspects were under arrest and being questioned, Bitton said, adding that the first was apprehended very quickly and the second a few minutes later.