Palestinian Kills 2, Injures 2 in Holon Stabbing Spree

Jerusalem, 4 August, 2024 (TPS) -- A 66-year-old Israeli woman and a 70-year-old man were killed and two others injured when a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing spree in Holon on Sunday morning.

The victims were attacked in three different areas before the terrorist was shot and killed by a police officer.

The first victim was a 26-year-old male who was out walking his dog. He was taken to the Wolfson Hospital in Holon where he is in moderate condition.

The terrorist fled, then stabbed a 66-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man in a grove. The woman was declared dead on arriving at Wolfson. The man arrived in critical condition but doctors were not able to save him.

The terrorist then made his way to a gas station where he stabbed a 68-year-old man who was in moderate to serious condition.

“This is a serious and complex attack, the victims were in three different scenes about 500 meters away from each other,” said Magen David Adom paramedic Rami Mushter and senior medic Eran Carmel.

The terrorist was shot and killed by a police officer. He was identified as Amar Razak Kamal Odeh, of the Palestinian village of Salfit and had entered Israel illegally.

“For many months the State of Israel has been facing murderous terrorism from home and abroad – there is no country in the world that will accept the agenda that an elderly couple who have done no harm to anyone are attacked with terrible cruelty by bloodthirsty terrorists. The security system will reckon with everyone and its long arms will reach everywhere in the world and overwhelm our enemy,” said Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur.