One woman was killed and nine seriously injured after an alleged shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
The ambulance service previously said a seriously injured woman in her twenties was being treated at the scene before she succumbed to her injuries.
Eight other people were injured in the attack, including one who is in moderate to serious condition and is receiving treatment at the nearby Soroka hospital.
According to local reports, the gunman, an Arab-Israeli resident of a nearby Bedouin village, was shot dead, and police are now investigating whether the attack involved stabbing and shooting by the terrorist.
Named locally for the Israel Hayom As Ahmed Suliman Al-Ukbi, he had allegedly gone from shop to shop near Beersheba’s central bus station, attacking a McDonald’s and a nearby cafe before authorities arrived.
One woman was killed and nine seriously injured after an alleged shooting in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Israeli police work at the scene of an attack in Beersheba, southern Israel, on October 6.
The shooter had allegedly gone from store to store near Beersheba’s central bus station, targeting a McDonald’s and a nearby cafe before authorities arrived.
This is the second mass shooting in Israel in a week
An Israeli border police officer sits near the site of an attack in Beersheba, southern Israel, on October 6.
He was neutralized at the scene, but police officers from the Southern District remained at the scene of the shooting while looking for accomplices, ensuring that ‘the situation is still active.’
This is the second mass shooting in Israel in a week.
On October 1, an alleged terrorist attack was reported in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Israeli police reported an alleged shooting in Jaffa that resulted in multiple victims.
Police confirmed that eight people were killed and seven others injured in the attack, which took place on Jerusalem Street near a light rail station.
Sunday’s mass shooting comes after Israel launched 30 airstrikes against Lebanon last night just one day before the anniversary of the October 7 massacre.
Terrifying video footage captured the moment an orange fire broke out over Lebanon’s capital with reports suggesting the attack may have hit a gas station, according to a map provided by the Israeli military.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut was hit by more than 30 attacks overnight, which were heard throughout the city, and smoke was still seen rising from the site after dawn.
Israel’s military said it “carried out a series of attacks against a number of weapons storage facilities” and infrastructure, highlighting that it had taken “numerous measures to mitigate the risk of harming civilians.”
In the Sabra area, near the southern suburbs, dozens of people, some carrying bags on foot and others on motorcycles, fled one of the most intense bombardments of the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Smoke rises from a fire following an explosion following an Israeli attack in the Choueifat district of Beirut, Lebanon, early October 6.
The Israeli military declared on October 6 that it carried out a series of “targeted attacks” overnight against a number of facilities and infrastructure sites belonging to Hezbollah in the Beirut area.
Israel says it has already struck more than 2,000 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the Iran-backed militia group continues to respond.
In a televised speech last night, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was fighting the forces of “barbarism,” led by Iran.
In a Sunday morning update from the IDF, it said the Israeli air force intercepted a “number” of aerial targets launched from Lebanese territory overnight.
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This followed warnings issued in the Western Galilee area.
In a separate update from the previous one, the IDF also said that an Israeli navy missile boat intercepted two drones “launched from the east” in the Mediterranean Sea, while the air force intercepted an unmanned aerial device (UAV) in the sea area off the coast of Gush Dan: also launched from the east.
In none of the cases were victims recorded, he added.
Last year’s unprecedented Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian militants killed 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures that include hostages killed in captivity.
A year later, Israel’s war in Gaza against Hamas continues despite having shifted its attention to Lebanon and Hezbollah.
Israel’s military said it had killed about 440 Hezbollah fighters “from the ground and from the air” since Monday, when troops began “targeted” ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel says its goal is to allow tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by nearly a year of Hezbollah rocket fire into northern Israel to return to their homes.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Iran a “constant threat” after Tehran, which backs armed groups across the Middle East, launched around 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday in revenge for Israeli killings of militant leaders, including Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.
