Four Killed After Stabbing Attack in Southern Israel

MAR 22 2022·Updated DEC 19 2022

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Image credit: AP Photo [via Al Jazeera]

The Facts

A Palestinian man with Israeli citizenship carried out a stabbing attack on Tues. that killed four people in the southern Israeli city of Beershaba, resulting in him being shot and killed by an armed bystander.
New York Post
Police stated that the attacker hit a biker with his car and stabbed five people across the city center.
NPR
This has been one of the deadliest attacks in recent years and the third of its kind since Saturday.
Daily Wire
The attacker was identified as Mohammad Ghaleb Abu al-Qi'an, a resident of Hura - a Bedouin town located near Beershaba - in his 30s.
BBC News
Al-Qi'an was arrested in 2015 when he planned to leave for Syria to join the Islamic State, for which he spent four years in prison.
BBC News

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The Spin

Narrative A

This horrific attack is but the latest example of a fanatical Arab terrorist killing Israeli civilians. While this shouldn't be used to condemn the whole of Bedouin society, Israel must respond with a heavy hand.

The Jerusalem Post

Narrative B

This attack is a tragedy, but one cannot ignore the context in which it occured. Southern Israel has been a hotbed of discrimination and displacement of Bedouins, which has led to some members of the community seeing no other way to resist.

Al Jazeera