2 Ukrainians killed in shooting attack in Israel

By Abdelraouf Arna'out

JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Ukrainians were among five people killed in Tuesday’s shooting attack in central Israel, Israeli police said on Wednesday.

A police statement said that the two Ukrainian nationals were aged 23 and 33, but did not reveal their names.

A police officer was also killed in the attack in the city of Bnei Brak, the statement said.

Police said the attacker was a 26-year-old Palestinian from Ya’bad village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

Tuesday’s attack was the third in a week in Israel.

Four Israelis were killed in a knife attack in the southern city of Beersheba on March 22.

Israeli security authorities blamed the attack on a Daesh/ISIS sympathizer, saying the attacker had previously been imprisoned for "security-related" crimes.

On March 27, two policemen were killed and three others injured in a shooting attack claimed by the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group in the central city of Hadera.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar