Four dead in stabbing and car attack in Be'er Sheva

According to Israeli police, the attacker stabbed a woman at a petrol station before hitting a cyclist with his car. He's then believed to have got out and stabbed a man and a woman before being shot by a passerby.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING FOOTAGE IS GRAPHIC

EXTREMELY GRAPHIC: Israeli citizens shoot down terrorist stabber in Beer Sheva pic.twitter.com/KxQoLlryUg

— Yishai Fleisher يشاي ישי פליישר 🕎 (@YishaiFleisher) March 22, 2022

According to the times of Israel, the perpetrator of the attack was named as Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi’an, who's believed to be a former terror convict from a Bedouin village in the Negev desert

Israel's intelligence service, the Shin Bet said it was investigating the attack.

הלב נקרע וכואב כשנפשות תמימות משלמות את מחיר הדמים של האיבה והשנאה. הטרור לא יכריע אותנו ולא יערער את זכותנו להתקיים בארצנו.

יחד עם העם בישראל אני שולח תנחומים למשפחות האבלות. אני סמוך ובטוח כי גורמי הביטחון יפעלו באופן נחוש וכי האחראים יתנו את הדין.

— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) March 22, 2022

The President of Israel Isaac Herzog tweeted a message of condolence and appeared to confirm the incident was a terror attack saying: "Terrorism will not overwhelm us or undermine our right to exist in our country.

"Together with the people of Israel, I send condolences to the families of the mourners. I am confident that the security forces will act decisively."

Kann News reported that the attack was a Bedouin Israeli citizen from a nearby village. No terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the attack, but both Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the slain attacker.

A Hamas spokesperson told official Hamas radio the group “salutes the executor of the heroic operation in occupied Be'er Sheva occupation’s crimes shall be met with heroic operations: stabbings, rammings and shootings."