A stabbing attack — carried out by a “terrorist,” according to authorities — along a popular oceanfront boardwalk around Tel Aviv left an American tourist dead and 10 other people wounded not far from where U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Tuesday.
“In these moments, terror attacks are taking place in streets adjacent to us,” said former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres during a meeting with Biden at the Peres Center for Peace.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted that one person was “murdered” and 10 were taken to the hospital after Tuesday’s attack along the Mediterranean Sea.
The “terrorist in Jaffa (was) shot dead by police,” said Rosenfeld, who said the attacker was a Palestinian from the West Bank.
Luba Samri, also with Israel police, told CNN that at least four people were stabbed near the Jaffa port and another three or more were stabbed as the attacker moved north on the boardwalk, a popular spot with shops and restaurants along the waterfront.
Police shot and killed the attacker as he tried to run away, according to Samri.