Four Israeli citizens were killed in a stabbing and car-ramming operation that was carried out on Tuesday by a Palestinian young man in Beersheba City south of 1948 occupied Palestine (Israel).
According to Israeli medical sources three Israelis were stabbed to death. A fourth person who was riding a bike was hit by a car driven by the same young man. The incident happened at a shopping center.
According to initial news reports the young man is an ex-detainee called Mohamed Abul-Qi’aan from the Negev town of Hura. He was shot dead by an armed passerby.
Several others were reportedly injured in the same operation and taken to Soroka Hospital in critical and moderate conditions.
This anti-occupation operation is considered the seventh incident during the current month March and it is seen as a natural response to Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.
In recent months the Palestinians in Negev have been exposed to an unprecedented Israeli repressive campaign following the popular uprising that happened last January in protest at the leveling and appropriation of Palestinian lands by “the Jewish National Fund” — a Zionist organization that collects money from Jews around the world to seize Palestinian property.
Those protests were met with brutal force by the Israeli police causing several injuries while many were arrested and jailed.
Israeli premier Naftali Bennett also threatened recently to use more repressive measures against the Palestinians in Negev and to build an iron wall separating them from Israel.
