THE Israeli police announced that he had killed a man who had injured two people today in a knife attack at the main bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.

Doctors reported treating one 20 year old man, who had been “stabbed” before being taken to hospital. Another person also suffered minor injuries, police said.

According to Israeli media, the attacker was a young Arab Bedouin and Israeli citizen, whose tribe comes from the Negev, a desert region of which Beersheba is the largest city.

A spate of fatal knife attacks has been reported in Israel and to occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, which erupted with Hamas’s unprecedented attack that day on Israeli soil.

About 1,160 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israel during the Hamas attack, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Israeli military retaliatory operations have killed more than 32,700 people in the Gaza Strip, the majority of them civilians, according to the health ministry of Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian movement that has been in power in Gaza since 2007.