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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 561

knife attack

Members of a special police unit escort a man suspected to be responsible for the Solingen knife attack from a helicopter to the office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, on August 25, 2024. (Thomas Kienzle / AFP)
February 28, 2025, 1:54 pm
Man charged over deadly 2024 knife attack in Germany that sought to ‘avenge Palestine’
Syrian asylum seeker slated for deportation swore allegiance to ISIS minutes before traveling to Solingen festival to target revelers, whom he saw as infidels, prosecutors say
By AP
Forensic police use torch lights on August 24, 2024 to inspect the scene where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late August 23, 2024 in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
August 24, 2024, 6:03 am
Three killed, several wounded in knife attack at German festival
Police launch ‘major operation’ to find suspect on the run after targeting event celebrating city’s 650th birthday; assailant ‘stabbed people indiscriminately,’ newspaper says
By Ina FASSBENDER and Femke COLBORNE
Illustrative: Police at a crime scene in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi. June 23, 2016. (Flash90)
November 27, 2022, 4:29 pm
Doctor knifed by patient at private clinic near Ashkelon, moderately injured
Hamdullah Badir, a doctor in Kiryat Malachi for over 20 years, had to fight off knife-wielding man; medical union has said violence against health workers is ‘an epidemic’
By Jack Mukand
German police and rescue workers walk with a detained man, on November 6, 2021, in Seubersdorf, southern Germany, after several people were wounded in a knife attack on a high-speed train. (Fabian Schreiner/dpa/AFP)
November 6, 2021, 12:52 pm
Several wounded in knife attack on German high-speed train
Local police say no further danger after arrest of alleged attacker, who newspaper identifies as being of ‘Arab origin’; motive still unclear
By Mathieu FOULKES
Illustrative: Women walk with children during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York, October 4, 2020. (AP/Kathy Willens)
April 2, 2021, 1:47 am
Orthodox Jewish family visiting New York City knifed in ‘possible bias incident’
Father fights off attacker, suffers head injuries that require stitches; mother, baby also hurt in incident near Battery Park
By Shira Hanau
Police investigators work at the scene where a man attacked seven people, seriously injuring three, in the Swedish city of Vetlanda on March 3, 2021. (Mikael FRITZON / various sources / AFP)
March 4, 2021, 7:01 pm
Sweden looking at terror links following knife spree that injured 7
Afghan man faces several attempted murder charges, was shot in the leg during the attack
By JAN M. OLSEN and david keyton
Illustrative: French police officers rush to the scene of a suspected terror attack in Paris, on September 25, 2020. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
September 25, 2020, 2:14 pm
2 seriously wounded in Paris knife attack near former offices of Charlie Hebdo
Counter-terror prosecutors launch probe as 2 suspects detained; victims identified as journalists; stabbings come during trial over 2015 attack on magazine, kosher supermarket
By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU and Tiphaine LE LIBOUX
IDF soldiers detain a Palestinian caught trying to infiltrate Itamar settlement with a knife on June 9, 2020. (Roy Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)
June 10, 2020, 12:20 am
Palestinian with knife arrested outside West Bank settlement
IDF says it is investigating suspect’s motive; Samaria Regional Council claims detainee was planning on carrying out terror attack in Itamar
By Jacob Magid
Policemen wear face masks as they march in formation outside the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, February 15, 2020 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
June 4, 2020, 10:31 am
Security guard carries out knife attack at China kindergarten; at least 39 hurt
Suspect detained, motive unknown; local government in the Guangxi region’s Cangwu county says 37 students and two adults suffered injuries of varying degrees
By AP
Illustrative: Catholic priests carry palm fronds at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many Christians to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's old city, Sunday, April 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
December 25, 2019, 6:42 pm
Jewish man arrested after entering Church of Holy Sepulchre with knife
Police say suspect, who caused brief panic during Christmas Mass, is mentally ill, release him after questioning
By ToI Staff
Hamza Faiz appears at the Ofer Military Court, on July 16, 2018. (Screen capture/Ynet)
October 7, 2019, 7:44 pm
Charge against Palestinian stabber bumped up to attempted murder after petition
Military court overturns earlier decision to convict Hebron resident of aggravated assault and concludes that he intended to kill Israeli, though he stabbed her only once
By Jacob Magid
Security forces and emergency personnel carry an injured person on a stretcher at the Penitentiary center of Alencon, in Conde-sur-Sarthe, northwestern France, on March 5, 2019, where elite police units have been dispatched after a detainee seriously wounded two guards in a knife attack that justice officials said was being investigated as a terror incident. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)
March 6, 2019, 9:22 am
‘Radicalized’ inmate stabs guards in French jail; his pregnant partner shot dead
Michael Chiolo, jailed for killing Dachau survivor, said to have been seeking to avenge slain terrorist using knife smuggled by visiting female companion, who is killed
By AFP and ToI Staff
The scene after a man stabbed his neighbor and a police officer before he was shot by police, Ashdod, February 17, 2019 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)
February 17, 2019, 8:29 am
Ashdod man stabs neighbor, then assaults police, is shot
Victim seriously injured; police follow blood stain trail through building to find suspect hiding behind refrigerator with knife
By ToI Staff
A knife carried by a Palestinian who tried to enter the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 3, 2019 (Israel Police)
February 3, 2019, 2:09 pm
Palestinian with knife nabbed among Hebron tourists
Armed suspect tries to enter Tomb of the Patriarchs shrine, is separated by police from group of visitors
By ToI Staff
A knife hidden in a Pringles container found on the person of a Palestinian woman at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Jerusalem, November 19, 2018 (Israel Police)
November 19, 2018, 3:09 pm
Palestinian woman caught at checkpoint with knife hidden in Pringles container
West Bank resident’s knife found by border guards at Qalandiya, outside Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
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