10/6/2024–|Last updated: 10/6/202406:32 PM (Mecca time)
Israeli media announced that a border guard policewoman was killed and 13 people were injured, some of them seriously, in a double stabbing and shooting attack near the central bus station in the city. Beersheba.
The occupation police said that the perpetrator of the operation was killed, and that its officers were combing the city in search of possible assistants to him.
She explained that preliminary investigations revealed that the perpetrator of the attack was a resident Negev He holds Israeli citizenship.
Occupation Army Radio reported that the perpetrator of the Beersheba attack stabbed the policewoman, took control of her weapon, and opened fire on the others. While the Israeli Ambulance Authority stated that the attack was carried out in two locations.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority indicated that the woman killed in the Beersheba operation was a non-commissioned officer in the Israeli Police Border Guard.
Pictures show heavily armed Israeli soldiers escaping in front of the Beersheba operation port. pic.twitter.com/q87p2GuYPc
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The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted the policewoman’s mother as saying that her daughter – and soldiers – hid in a bathroom during the Beersheba operation, and that she was unable to communicate with her.
Activists said that the perpetrator of the Beersheba operation was Ahmed Al-Aqibi from the town of Hura in the Negev, and he is a relative of Muhannad Al-Aqibi, who carried out a shooting attack in the same location in 2015, which then led to the death of an Israeli soldier and the injury of a number of others.
The perpetrator of the operation is Ahmed Al-Aqibi from the town of Hura in the Negev. He is a relative of Muhannad Al-Aqibi, who carried out a shooting attack in 2015.
Both of them carried out the operation at the central station in Beersheba, both in October, and both of them killed an Israeli soldier in the operation. https://t.co/jqS7sqELfr pic.twitter.com/C6wHFxqjmQ— Tamer | Tamer (@tamerqdh) October 6, 2024
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority announced that the policewoman was killed and 10 others were injured in the shooting in Beersheba, before announcing the new toll of those injured.
In turn, Israeli Channel 12 confirmed that injured people were being transported to hospitals after the attack in Beersheba, and quoted eyewitnesses that the perpetrator of the attack was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
Yedioth Ahronoth quoted the commander of the southern region of the Israeli police as saying that his forces arrested a large number of relatives of the Beersheba bomber following the attack.
The Israeli officer said that the Beersheba attack was “difficult” and that police forces were deployed very widely in the city.
From the vicinity of the operation in Beersheba.. More than 24 hours remain until the 7th of October, and this is the scene in the occupied territories: 10 injuries, two dead, and clear terror on the faces. pic.twitter.com/HjudIcPSsk
– Karar Amer | Karar ammr (@1KA00R) October 6, 2024
Yedioth Ahronoth reported that Israelis met with the Minister of Security Itamar Ben Gvir In Beersheba, with calls for his dismissal and chants accusing him of failure.
While Ben Gvir said that the homes of those he described as not loyal to the State of Israel must be destroyed, he also called for issuing a law to deport the families of “terrorists.”
The Beersheba commando operation comes on the eve of the first anniversary of the battle Al-Aqsa flood Which was launched by the Palestinian resistance, on October 7, 2023, against settlements in the Gaza Strip, and led to the killing and wounding of hundreds of Israelis, most of them soldiers, and the capture of a number of others.
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