The state prosecutor’s office filed an indictment against Ahmed Abu al-Rov, a 34-year-old resident of Qabatiya, for last month’s combined ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel that killed two people.
The indictment stated that Abu al-Arov entered Israel from the Jerusalem areaa few days before the attack, and was employed by a resident of Araba in construction work. The Araba resident was also indicted, as were Abu al-Rov’s two brothers, who were in Israel illegally.
In late December, two Israelis were killed and two other people were wounded in an attack by a then-unknown Palestinian assailant.
Aviv Maor, an 18-year-old woman from Kibbutz Ein Harod, was found stabbed to death by the side of a road near Kibbutz Tel Yosef. Shimshon Mordechai, 68, was killed after being run over in the city of Beit She’an.
Police said the assailant ran over a 16-year-old boy in Beit She’an, lightly wounding him, before striking the 68-year-old man elsewhere in the city, critically wounding him. The man was later pronounced dead.
He then drove about 13 kilometers (8 miles) west to the area of Kibbutz Tel Yosef, where he fatally stabbed the 18-year-old woman. He later continued toward the city of Afula, about 14 kilometers (8.5 miles) west of Tel Yosef, where he attempted to run over another man and assaulted him with a rock.
“He crashed into a utility pole,” a resident told Israel’s Channel 13 News, saying the assailant “took a large rock and struck him on the head.” The man was lightly wounded.
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Map showing the locations of the suspected ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel: Beit She’an, Tel Yosef and Afula. Credit: Google Maps, Mapa GISrael
Map showing the locations of the suspected ramming and stabbing attack in northern Israel: Beit She’an, Tel Yosef and Afula. Credit: Google Maps, Mapa GISrael
The perpetrator’s car during the attack last month.