A Palestinian teenager is charged with terrorism and four counts of attempted murder for carrying out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv last month.
According to the indictment, Imag Agbar, 18, from Nablus, confessed to going on a stabbing spree with wire-cutters in the lobby of the Leonardo Beach hotel on April 23.
Four people, including a man in his 70s and a woman in her 50s, were hospitalized with light injuries as a result of the attack.
The indictment says Agbar told investigators that he decided “to kill Jews because they are Jews, and also so that when he would be killed or arrested he would become a martyr or a hero.”
Defense officials later said Agbar entered Israel from the West Bank on a one-day permit group known as “Natural Peace Tours,” which is supposed to forge relationships between Palestinians and Israelis.
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