A stabbing attack on Tuesday evening in Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin area left four people injured. The assailant, identified as Moroccan-born U.S. permanent resident Abdelaziz Kaddi, was fatally shot at the scene by a civilian passerby, according to Israeli media reports.
Police Spokesman Aryeh Doron said that the attacker was “neutralized” by an armed civilian.
Israel’s state-owned Kan TV later reported the individual’s death, publishing photos of documents found on his body.
Kaddi, born in June 1995 in Morocco, and bearer of a U.S. permanent resident since September 2022, had entered Israel just three days prior to the attack.
Two of the victims sustained moderate injuries, while the other two were lightly wounded. All four were transported to a nearby hospital for medical treatment, according to media reports
Following the attack, Hamas issued a statement hailing Kaddi as a “hero” and a “martyr.”
The stabbing occurred just hours after Israel’s military launched a significant operation in Jenin, a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank. At least eight people were reported dead, two days after a ceasefire agreement ended 15 months of Israeli military operations in Gaza.