Seven injured in Tel Aviv ramming and stabbing attack

Seven people were wounded, four of them seriously, in a car-ramming and stabbing terror attack in northern Tel Aviv on July 4 afternoon, police and medics said.

According to police, the Palestinian assailant rammed his pickup truck into people on a sidewalk on Pinchas Rosen Street in the city, then got out and stabbed others.

He was shot dead by an armed civilian.

Police spokesman Eli Levy said the incident was a terror attack, The Times of Israel reports.

Four of the victims were listed in serious and moderate-to-serious condition, the nearby Ichilov and Beilinson hospitals said. Another three were listed in moderate and good-to-moderate conditions. One person was also brought to Ichilov after suffering acute anxiety.

Surveillance camera footage showed the moment the terrorist slammed into pedestrians at a bus stop. Moments later he was seen emerging from the car and rushing at and stabbing onlookers.

Another video clip circulating on social media showed an armed man wearing a motorcycle helmet shooting the apparent assailant with a handgun multiple times, as well as kicking away a knife from his hand.

The Shin Bet security agency said the terrorist who carried out the attack did not have an entry permit to Israel.

The agency in a statement named the attacker as Abed al-Wahab Khalaila, 20, from the West Bank town of As-Samu, in the South Hebron Hills area.

The attack came as the Israeli military was carrying out a major operation in the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The operation came after a series of Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis killed 24 people since the start of this year. Many of the attackers came from Jenin and its environs.

On Monday, in another suspected terror attack, a Palestinian teenager stabbed and lightly hurt an Israeli man in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak.