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Terrorist who killed 2 Israelis yesterday released from hospital, taken for Shin Bet interrogation
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe terrorist who killed two Israelis during a car-ramming and stabbing rampage in northern Israel yesterday has been released from the hospital and transferred to a security facility for interrogation by the Shin Bet, Hebrew media reports.
Ahmed al-Rub, 37, of Qabatiya in the northern West Bank, was hospitalized with moderate injuries after he killed 68-year-old Shimshon Mordechai and 19-year-old Aviv Maor during a minutes-long terror attack on a highway near Beit Shean.
According to reports, Rub was treated for his wounds at HaEmek Medical Center in Afula and is now in Shin Bet custody for questioning.
A 16-year-old boy who was moderately wounded during the attack remains hospitalized, the Maariv daily reports.
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