Four Killed After Stabbing Attack in Israel’s Naqab Region

A Palestinian man was fatally shot after reportedly carrying out a stabbing attack near a shopping centre in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva, killing at least four people and wounding two others.

According to reports, the suspected attacker was identified by local media as 33-year-old Ahmed al-Qiaan, a teacher who hailed from the town of Hura in the Negev region and had been imprisoned for alleged links to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant, ISIL, group.

Israeli police on Tuesday said he was shot by a passer-by at a petrol station.

Meanwhile, Palestinian media reported that Israeli police carried out a raid in Hura later on Tuesday, shutting down roads and surrounding al-Qiaan’s residence.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office in a statement said that security forces were on high alert.

Meanwhile, Hamas, the group that governs the occupied Gaza Strip, and