2024 Beersheba bus station shooting

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2024 Beersheba bus station shooting
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Scene of the crime with the area taped off by police
LocationBeersheba, Israel
Date6 October 2024
14:30 P.M. (GMT+3)
Attack type
Mass shooting and stabbing [1]
Deaths2 (including the perpetrator)
Injured13
PerpetratorAhmad Said Suliman al-Uqbi

On 6 October 2024, a day before the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, a gunman carried out a shooting and stabbing attack in Beersheba's central station. [2] [3] Thirteen Israelis were wounded and one was killed. [4] [2] The gunman was killed by Israeli security forces. [5]

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Background

Tensions between Israel and the occupied West Bank have steadily increased since the 7 October 2023 attacks, which killed about 1,200 people including 815 civilians. As of 23 September 2024, over 41,000 Palestinian civilians [6] and approximately 1,000 Israeli civilians [7] have been killed in the Israel-Hamas War.

Five days before this attack, there had been another attack on 1 October in Jaffa, Tel Aviv where two Hamas gunmen opened fire and killed seven and wounded seventeen before being killed by responding IDF troops and an armed civilian. [8] [9]

Attack

One person was killed and thirteen others were injured in the attack, which took place inside McDonald's at Beersheba's central bus station. [10] Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that its paramedics treated nine individuals on-site for various injuries. [11] Border Police Sgt. Shira Suslik, 19, from Beersheba, died from injuries caused by the attack. [10] MDA indicated that two individuals in serious condition, four in moderate condition, and two with minor injuries were being transferred to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. [11]

Perpetrator

The assailant was identified as Ahmad Said Suliman al-Uqbi, a 29-year-old Bedouin resident of the unrecognised village of Uqbi near Hura, who had a criminal record and was related to the perpetrator of the 2015 Beersheba bus station shooting, Muhanad al-Uqbi. [11] [12]

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  7. Including: 915 civilians killed 828 on October 7 (including 258 foreign or dual national citizens and 14+ hostages in Gaza) 33 additional hostages in Gaza thought dead 27 on the Lebanese border 3 in Alexandria, Egypt 14 in the West Bank and Israel by 11 August 2024 (per OCHA oPt) not including 1 mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and 3 killed by militants (2 near Ofra and 1 near Kedumim), bringing the total to 18 conflict-related deaths for the period 1 in Rafah, Gaza Strip 1 in Tel Aviv 3 in Allenby Bridge
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