On Monday morning, an Arab Israeli young man allegedly carried out a car-ramming and shooting attack near the northern Israeli city of Haifa, killing one and seriously injuring another before he was killed by police.
According to Israeli Police Inspector General, Danny Levy the accused man arrived at a bus station southeast of Haifa, rammed a number of Israelis with his vehicle, and allegedly opened fire on them, killing an elderly man and critically wounding an occupation soldier.
Israeli police announced that their forces opened fire at the alleged perpetrator, shooting him dead, while the army admitted that one of their soldiers was critically injured during the attack.
Inspector General Levy added that, an Arab-Israeli citizen, “snatched a soldier’s weapon and continued his attack, firing in all directions. We arrived at his home and made the necessary arrests.”
Israeli Channel 12 identified the purported attacker as Karam Jumaa Jabarin, 25, who was killed at the scene is a resident of Zalfa town, near Umm al-Fahm.
The elderly Israeli man who was declared dead at the scene was identified as 75-year-old Moshe Horan, according to Israeli media.
In response to the car-ramming operation, the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip said in a statement, “The heroic shooting operation that took place near the city of Haifa in northern 1948 occupied Palestine (Israel) comes in response to the escalating crimes of the Zionist occupation against our people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, and against our heroic prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.”
