Event

2015 Tel Aviv bus stabbing attack

21 Jan 2015 · 32.08° N, 34.78° E

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When
21 Jan 2015
Kind
Event
Coordinates
32.08° N, 34.78° E

Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Tel Aviv.

Summary

A Palestinian man from the West Bank, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk, illegally crosses into Israel for the express purpose to stab people, attacking over a dozen Israelis on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Security forces captured the assailant as he continued to indiscriminately stab people in the street.

2015 Tel Aviv bus stabbing attack

Terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, Israel

During the morning rush hour of 21 January 2015, a Palestinian man from Tulkarm, West Bank boarded a bus in Tel Aviv and stabbed multiple people in a terrorist attack. After the bus he boarded had driven about 400 meters, the Palestinian attacked the driver, who fought back, before turning to other passengers and attacking them. The bus stopped, with the passengers fleeing, and the Palestinian attacked others too.

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