Netanyahu blames Abbas for Tel Aviv stabbing attack

Palestinian man boards public bus during rush hour, stabbing at least 10 before being shot in the leg and apprehended.

Photos by Oren Ziv, Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org

Medics treat a victim of a stabbing attack on a Tel Aviv bus line, January 21, 2015. (Activestills.org)
Medics treat a victim of a stabbing attack on a Tel Aviv bus line, January 21, 2015. (Activestills.org)

A Palestinian man from Tulkarm stabbed at least 10 people on a public bus in Tel Aviv Wednesday morning. Three of them were in serious wounded, four moderately.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed blame for the attack on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that it “is the direct result of the poisonous incitement being disseminated by the Palestinian Authority against the Jews and their state.”

“[Abbas] is responsible for both the incitement and the dangerous move at the ICC in the Hague,” he added.

Just after 7 a.m., during rush hour, the 23-year-old from Tulkarm boarded public a bus on Begin Road, a major thoroughfare in the city. He reportedly starting stabbing the driver and other passengers before fleeing.

An Israel Prison Service officer who happened to be nearby shot him in the leg and apprehended him.

Israeli police evacuate the Palestinian suspect in a bus stabbing, whom an Israel Prison Service officer shot in the leg and apprehended. (Photo by Activestills.org)
Israeli police evacuate the Palestinian suspect in a bus stabbing, whom an Israel Prison Service officer shot in the leg and apprehended. (Photo by Activestills.org)

Several months ago there was a string of deadly of stabbing and vehicular attacks against Israeli civilians and security forces, culminating with a terror attack in a Jerusalem synagogue.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu placed blame for the attack on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that it “is the direct result of the poisonous incitement being disseminated by the Palestinian Authority against the Jews and their state.”

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