A Palestinian young man was killed, on Saturday, and an Israeli was seriously injured after an alleged stabbing attack in the city of Tel Aviv in southern Israel.

Media sources said that an armed Israeli citizen shot and killed the Palestinian youth after he allegedly carried out a stabbing attack at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, on Saturday afternoon.

Sources added that an Israeli man in his thirties was stabbed by the suspect; he was transported to the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where his condition was described as serious.

The Arab 48 News website quoted Israeli reports which stated that “the perpetrator of the stabbing operation is Salah Yahya (19 years old), a resident of the Tulkarm area, who stayed in the country illegally.”

It quoted the Israeli police who stated that “The initial investigation indicates that a ‘terrorist’ armed with a knife arrived at the restaurant area on ‘Lepontine’ Street and stabbed a citizen, seriously injuring him. An armed citizen who was near the scene opened fire on the ‘terrorist’ and he was neutralized.”

According to the Red Star of David, its ambulance crews said,“We arrived with large crews to the scene and saw a young man in his twenties on the street, fully conscious and suffering from a stab wound to the upper part of his body. We immediately provided him with life-saving first aid and then transferred him in an intensive care vehicle in moderate condition.”

The Israeli police identified the alleged perpetrator as the young man, Saleh Yahya, 19, from the city of Tulkarem in the northwestern part of the West Bank, adding that he did not have a permit to enter Israel.