Six Wounded in Stabbing Attack in Israel, Police Say

 An Israeli police officer aims his weapon from a vehicle following a suspected stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel, October 9, 2024. (Reuters)
An Israeli police officer aims his weapon from a vehicle following a suspected stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel, October 9, 2024. (Reuters)
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Six Wounded in Stabbing Attack in Israel, Police Say

 An Israeli police officer aims his weapon from a vehicle following a suspected stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel, October 9, 2024. (Reuters)
An Israeli police officer aims his weapon from a vehicle following a suspected stabbing attack in Hadera, Israel, October 9, 2024. (Reuters)

At least six people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Hadera on Wednesday, Israeli authorities said.

"The terrorist has been neutralized," police said in a statement. "Four separate locations have been identified, resulting in six victims with stab wounds."

The police did not immediately provide other details, but issued a brief video of the suspected attacker being apprehended.

Of the six people rushed to the hospital, at least two were in serious condition, according to medical officials.

Israel has been on high security alert since the Hamas assault a year ago sparked the war in Gaza, while a conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon continues to escalate.



Iran Quds Force Chief Qaani is Well, to Get Medal from Supreme Leader, Adviser Says

Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Esmail Qaani  - Reuters
Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Esmail Qaani - Reuters
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Iran Quds Force Chief Qaani is Well, to Get Medal from Supreme Leader, Adviser Says

Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Esmail Qaani  - Reuters
Head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, Esmail Qaani - Reuters

The commander of the overseas arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards is well and will receive a medal from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei soon, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a senior Guards adviser on Wednesday as saying.

Two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters earlier that Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the Sept. 27 killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, had not been heard from since further Israeli bombings of south Beirut late last week.

"Commander Qaani is in perfect health and will receive the Fath medal from the Supreme Leader in the coming days," Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to Qaani, told Tasnim.

Quds Force deputy commander Iraj Masjedi had on Monday denied reports that Qaani had been harmed in the course of Israel's intensifying airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs.

Iran appointed Qaani as commander of the Guards overseas military and intelligence service after the United States assassinated his powerful predecessor Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad in 2020.

Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Commander Amir Ali Hajizadeh received the Fath medal from Khamenei on Sunday for his central role in Iran's missile strikes on Israel carried out on Oct. 1.