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An Israeli Border Police officer was killed and at least ten other people were wounded in a shooting attack at the Beersheba bus station on October 6.
A gunman stormed into a McDonald’s in the southern city’s central bus station and opened fire on those inside, including 19-year-old Sergeant Shira Suslik who was fatally wounded.
The gunman, who was reportedly killed at the scene by Israeli soldiers, was identified by Hebrew media as Ahmad al-Uqbi, 29, an Israeli citizen from the unrecognized Bedouin village of Uqbi. Police said that they were investigating whether the attack involved both stabbing and gunfire by the gunman.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said that ten people were wounded in the attack and taken for treatment to the Soroka Medical Center. The casualties included a woman in serious condition and four men in moderate condition, all of whom sustained gunshot wounds.
Another five were listed in good condition after being hit by glass shards or blunt trauma, while three others were treated for acute anxiety, according to the service.
The deadly attack in Beersheba came just three days after a rare Israeli airstrike hit the Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, killing at least 20 Palestinains, including members of the Hamas Movement and the Islamic Jihad.
Two days before the deadly airstrike, seven Israelis were killed and 17 others were wounded as a result of a shooting attack in the central city of Tel Aviv that was claimed by Hamas. Israeli security forces killed two gunmen who carried out the attack.
The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which has so far claimed the lives of more than 41,000 Palestinians, led to an increase of violence within Israel and in the West Bank.
Since the start of the war, at least 47 people, including Israeli soldiers and police officers, have been killed in attacks in Israel and the West Bank. During the same period, around 716 Palestinians were killed and over 5,250 others were arrested in the West Bank.
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