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6 People Hurt in Knife Attack on Bus in Germany

A woman lights a candle at the site of an attack to commemorate the victims late Friday, Aug. 30 2024, in Solingen, Germany. (Sascha Thelen/dpa via AP)
A woman lights a candle at the site of an attack to commemorate the victims late Friday, Aug. 30 2024, in Solingen, Germany. (Sascha Thelen/dpa via AP)
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6 People Hurt in Knife Attack on Bus in Germany

A woman lights a candle at the site of an attack to commemorate the victims late Friday, Aug. 30 2024, in Solingen, Germany. (Sascha Thelen/dpa via AP)
A woman lights a candle at the site of an attack to commemorate the victims late Friday, Aug. 30 2024, in Solingen, Germany. (Sascha Thelen/dpa via AP)

Police arrested a 32-year-old woman after six people were hurt in a knife attack on a bus headed to a festival in western Germany. Authorities said Saturday that there was no evidence of a political motive.
Three of those attacked are in life-threatening condition, police said on Friday evening.
The knife attack took place in Siegen, east of Cologne. The bus was on its way to a local festival in the town and at least another 40 people were on board when the attack took place at about 7:40 p.m, The Associated Press reported.
Police and prosecutors said the six people wounded were aged between 16 and 30 and all were from the region. By Saturday morning, three of them had left the hospital after outpatient treatment.
Local authorities planned to go ahead with the festival.
The stabbing in Siegen happened a week after a knife attack in Solingen, a city in the same state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in which a suspected extremist from Syria who had avoided being deported is accused of killing three people and wounding another eight.
The Solingen attack prompted the governing coalition to draw up plans to tighten knife laws and make deportations easier.
Police said the woman arrested in Siegen was a German citizen with no immigrant roots.

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Reports About Iranian Plan to Invade Israel

Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of a member killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Aita al-Shaab on August 23 (AFP)
Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of a member killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Aita al-Shaab on August 23 (AFP)
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Reports About Iranian Plan to Invade Israel

Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of a member killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Aita al-Shaab on August 23 (AFP)
Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of a member killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Aita al-Shaab on August 23 (AFP)

Security circles in Tel Aviv warned on Friday of an Iranian plot to “invade” Israel and shower it with a belt of fire from all fronts, from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank, and from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen.

The circles criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that he recently revealed the plan by Tehran, but is doing nothing to confront it except giving speeches.

Ben Caspit, the political correspondent for the Maariv newspaper, who conveyed the warnings of the security circles, said that Iran and Hezbollah have taken control of the CERS Institute, the center of the Syrian military industry, which produces chemical weapons and accurate missiles.

The Israeli Alma Center for Defense Research stated in a study last year that the real purpose of CERS is to develop weapons for the regime in Syria, and that it operates under the cover of a civilian scientific research center. The study claims that the institute includes secret military facilities that serve the Syrian and Iranian armies and Hezbollah.

The Maariv correspondent, Ben Caspit, quotes a military official as saying that a tunnel network is being dug from Damascus International Airport, leading to various storage and concealment sites in Syria, in order to “circumvent” the Israeli Air Force’s bombing operations.

The tunnel network will allow Hezbollah to evade Israeli strikes and accelerate the movement’s expansion, he says.

A reserve brigadier general confirmed, according to Maariv, that Iran and Hezbollah have been using the drug smuggling route in the border triangle between Jordan, Syria and Israel, for the purpose of transporting weapons and combat equipment.

Caspit slammed the Israeli prime minister for “doing nothing” except for giving speeches.

He added that when there was a need to launch a preemptive strike on Hezbollah on Sunday morning, Netanyahu chose the easiest option he received from the army, but later instructed to water down the response, to prevent any potential escalation on the northern front.