Police have arrested a man suspected of helping Bashar Massalha, who carried out a stabbing-spree in Jaffa in March, according to Ynet.
The detention of Muhammad Awieda was reportedly extended by a week following his arrest.
Bashar Massalha, 22, who hailed from a West Bank village near Qalqilya, stabbed three people on the Jaffa boardwalk, a popular site for shopping and leisure, before fleeing inland toward the city’s Kikar Hasha’on, where he stabbed three more people. He then went on to stab at least four more people, several hundred meters to the north, near the Dolphinarium club in Tel Aviv, before he was shot dead by police.
Security forces and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack that killed one and injured nine others in Jaffa on March 8, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
US tourist Taylor Force, 29, was killed, and nine Israelis were injured in the attack.
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