At least one person was killed and 17 were injured in a car-ramming and stabbing terrorist attack in the Israeli city of Raanana on Monday.
The alleged perpetrators stole vehicles and “ran over a number of citizens in different places,” according to Israeli police. A woman in her 70s was killed, while the Times of Israel reported that multiple children and teenagers were among those injured in the attacks.
The individuals are believed to be residents of Hebron, a city in the West Bank. They purportedly illegally crossed from the West Bank into Israel to carry out the attack. Israeli police said officers were sweeping the nearby areas for any possible additional threats.
Hamas said the attacks were “a natural response to the occupation’s massacres and its continued aggression against our Palestinian people.”
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There has been an increase in tension and violence in the West Bank that predates Israel’s war in Gaza against Hamas, which commenced following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. Since the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history, Israeli forces have arrested more than 2,600 Palestinians in the West Bank, including about half of whom have Hamas affiliations, while the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry has said some 300 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed since then.
During Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, roughly 1,200 people were killed, the vast majority of whom were civilians, while another approximately 240 people were kidnapped and brought back to Gaza. About half of them are still being held by Hamas or other smaller Gaza-based terrorist groups a hundred days after they were taken.
