Shin Bet declares Afula stabbing a terror attack

The Shin Bet security service declares yesterday’s stabbing attack, in which an 18-year-old Israeli high school student was seriously injured in the northern city of Afula, a terror attack.

Just before noon yesterday, Shuva Malka was stabbed on the street in Afula shortly before noon. Her attacker fled the scene.

A short while later, police arrested the suspected terrorist, identified as Nour al-Din Shinawi, a Palestinian man in his 20s from the West Bank city of Jenin, who had entered Israel without a permit.

Malka, who was seriously wounded, was rushed to Afula’s HaEmek Medical Center. As of this afternoon, she remains in serious condition and is being treated in the intensive care unit after undergoing emergency surgery.

The Shin Bet says that Shinawi did not have a record of being involved in terrorist activities, and that investigators are still working to determine a specific motive.

— Judah Ari Gross