An American tourist was stabbed to death and at least nine other people were wounded by a Palestinian armed with a knife on a popular boardwalk in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, authorities said, while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in a meeting a few kilometers (miles) away.
The attack took place in the popular Jaffa port area, which is a favorite spot among tourists. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said four of the wounded had severe injuries.
“A terrorist, an illegal resident who came from somewhere in the Palestinian territories, came here to Jaffa and embarked on a run … along the boardwalk. On his way he indiscriminately stabbed people,” Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai told Army Radio.
He said a police officer eventually caught up with the attacker and shot him dead.
The U.S. State Department strongly condemned the attack and identified the slain American as Taylor Allen Force.
“As we have said many times, there is absolutely no justification for terrorism. We continue to encourage all parties to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions and restore calm,” it said in a statement.
Biden arrived in Israel late on Tuesday for a two-day visit, and was meeting former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jaffa around the time of the stabbings.
Tuesday also saw three other attacks by Palestinians.
In Jerusalem, a Palestinian opened fire at Israeli police on a crowded street, seriously wounding two officers, before being shot dead, and a 50-year-old Palestinian woman who tried to stab Israeli police officers was also shot and killed.
In the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah Tikva, a Palestinian entered a store and stabbed an Israeli. The wounded man and the store owner together overpowered the attacker and fought him off using the same knife. The attacker died of his wounds, a police spokesman said.
Since October, Palestinian stabbings, shootings and car rammings have killed 28 Israelis and two Americans. Israeli forces have killed at least 177 Palestinians, 119 of whom Israel says were assailants. Most others were shot dead during violent protests.
(Reporting by Rami Amichay; Additional reporting by Washington Newsroom; Writing by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Kevin Liffey and Sandra Maler)
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence-tourist-idUSKCN0WA2FR
And just in time for biden’s visit.
Reminds me of the proverb: “The ‘jew’ cries out in pain as he stabs you”
Next will be satanyahoo putting his hand out for more american taxpayer money…all for the expansion of ‘greater israel’.
-flek
It serves the Zionists right. People tend to hold grudges when you starve them, brutalize them, drop white phosphorus on them, and otherwise subject them to slow genocide.
The headline reads as if an american was targeted specifically, as was Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an IDF bulldozer, and american sailors on the USS LIBERTY and american targets in the lavon affair, 9/11 and so on and so on, and not as if palestinians are reacting to state sponsored genocide. And yes, the timing is very convenient.
“A terrorist, an illegal resident who came from somewhere in the Palestinian territories, came here to Jaffa and embarked on a run … along the boardwalk. On his way he indiscriminately stabbed people,” Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai told Army Radio.
It is not possible for a Palestinian to be an illegal resident in Palestine.
Mayor Ronnie there needs to get his geography straight, for starters. He and his pack of thugs are the ones in PALESTINE illegally.
“It is not possible for a Palestinian to be an illegal resident in Palestine.”
Yea I was thinking that same thing after reading that part. What the hell is Ronnie smoking? That’s like saying an American is an illegal in the US. WTF?
Speaking of Biden, has everyone forgotten about his strange behavior with another politicians young daughter on tv?
“On his way, he indiscriminately stabbed people,” of course, the American had his Nike’s and “Fifth Avenue” clothing on for easy identification and targeting. The rest of the victims, they weren’t Americans, not “newsworthy”.
Well, that’s what you get for taking your vacation in an enemy occupied territory you f@#kin dumba$$.
“As we have said many times, there is absolutely no justification for terrorism.”
“War by Deception”
“We continue to encourage all parties to take affirmative steps to reduce tensions and restore calm,”
The jews, however, will continue to murder indiscriminately.
With impunity.
Probably an “American Jew” was stabbed.
Look at the bright side.
It could have been a rock.
Hey… I guess if you are on an African safari watching lions and hyenas.
Statistically you’ve increased your chances of getting eaten.
Same here.
If you vacation there.
The odds of getting stabbed, shot or gassed, mugged, beaten, run over by a foreign taxi driver has just increased exponentially.