Two people were killed Sunday and two others wounded in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv, Israeli medics said, with police reporting a suspect was “neutralised” and later died in hospital.
It comes at a moment of heightened tension in Israel and the wider Middle East, nearly 10 months into the war in the Gaza Strip.
The stabbing suspect, from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was “neutralised” by a police officer who arrived at the scene, the force said in a statement without elaborating.
The Shamir Medical Centre said the assailant was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to the hospital near Holon in a critical condition.
A 66-year-old woman and a man aged around 80 were badly wounded and died from their injuries shortly after the attack, the Wolfson hospital in the city said.
Israeli news website Ynet said the pair, whose ages Magen David Adom earlier gave as 70, were married.
Two other men were wounded, the emergency service said.
A 68-year-old was in serious condition and a 26-year-old was moderately wounded.
