Deadly terror attacks unfolding near Tel Aviv
Trey Yingst reports from Israel on car-ramming, stabbing attacks
Israeli police say two assailants are in custody Monday following a "terror attack" that has left one person dead and at least 17 others injured in the city of Ra'anana, just north of Tel Aviv.
The vehicle ramming and stabbing attacks – which Hamas has claimed responsibility for, according to Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst – unfolded after an assailant stabbed a woman and carjacked her vehicle, police say. Central District commander Avi Biton later announced that two individuals from the same family in the Hebron area of the West Bank, who worked nearby, were taken into custody. They were identified by Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency as Ahmed Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44, from Bnei Naim.
"They are trying to break us," former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at one of the scenes. "But I want to be as clear as possible, we are not moving. We are not going anywhere. We are here to stay. And we are going to hunt down every single terrorist and we are going to win."
At least 17 people have been injured in the attacks. One woman who was critically injured later died at a local hospital. Israeli rescue services say three people are in serious condition, while seven of those wounded were minors.
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Israeli security forces work at the site of a Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing attack at a bus stop, in Ra'anana, Israel, on Monday, Jan. 15. (AP/Oded Balilty)
France’s Foreign Ministry said two French citizens also are among the wounded. In a statement, it said "nothing justifies terrorism″ and that France "assures Israel of its solidarity in this ordeal.″
Meanwhile, authorities have been searching the area for more possible suspects nearby.
"I was sure that it was a car accident," Eden Alfi, a witness to one of the ramming attacks, told the Israeli newspaper Maariv, according to The Jerusalem Post. "Another person was with me, noticed the situation and shouted 'an attack, an attack'. After that, I saw the terrorist. I saw him stabbing a man around 60 years old. The man fell and the terrorist ran away."
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Israeli security forces search for assailants near the scene of the bus stop attack in Ra'anana, Israel. (AP/Oded Balilty)
Biton added that the suspects "went out together and in parallel, to two different locations, took two cars and launched a series of rammings," Reuters reports.
Images taken at one of the scenes showed a heavily damaged white sedan that appeared to have been driven into a bus stop.
At least one person has been reported dead following the attacks in Ra'anana, Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/TPS)
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Schools in the area where the attacks happened were placed on lockdown, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.