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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Video: Terrorist stops for pizza shortly before carrying out Tel Aviv stabbing attack
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Channel 12 news airs footage of the terrorist who carried out last night’s terror attack in Tel Aviv buying slices of pizza at a nearby eatery before stabbing and wounding four people a short time later.
“I only realized later when I got home and images were circulating on WhatsApp. That’s when I saw a photo of the terrorist,” Chaim Bassan, the owner of Pizza and Tortilla, tells the outlet.
“He was so close to us. We saw him. We talked to him,” Bassan says.
The stabbing attack on Tel Aviv’s Nahalat Binyamin Street was carried out by Moroccan national Abdelaziz Kaddi, a US green card holder, according to an ID found on his body.
“A few minutes after he left the pizzeria, people began to run,” Bassan says. “They were shouting ‘terrorist’ and I heard gunfire. So we ran.”
“It didn’t occur to me that it was anything to do with him,” Bassan says, adding that Kaddi spoke to him in English with an Arabic accent and that he had remarked to him on his choice of language as he thought it was unusual.
“He ate outside, and he even returned his plate, which not all Israelis do,” Bassan says.
דקות לפני הפיגוע אמש בתל אביב המחבל עצר לקנות פיצה מפיצרייה סמוכה לזירת הפיגוע. pic.twitter.com/aH38oPf4iI
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