According to a report from the scene by Yedidya Epstein, the would-be stabber in Lod was spotted by civilians with a knife near the municipal complex, fled when police arrived, and was shot after attempting to stab Border Police officers who cornered him.
New details from the scene of Wednesday morning's thwarted stabbing attack in Lod, reported by Yedidya Epstein, describe the sequence of events that ended with the assailant shot dead. The attacker was spotted by civilians walking with a knife near the municipal complex; they called police, and patrol cars were dispatched. The suspect fled on foot. Border Police (Yasam) officers closed in from behind, and when he noticed them he attempted to stab them and was neutralized on the spot.
As The Zioneer reported in a series of updates (Wed 10:20, 10:45, and 10:58 Jerusalem), the suspect was identified as Sami Ahmad Ja'asus, 28, a resident of Lod with a prior record for weapons offenses. The initial police report framed the incident as a terror attack and described the suspect as a non-resident Arab; within the same hour, the thread corrected that to an Israeli Arab, and by 10:58 the full name and prior record were confirmed. No Israeli personnel were wounded in the incident. The weapon was recovered at the scene.
What remains open: no official statement from Israel Police has yet detailed the exact timeline of the civilian call, the foot chase, and the confrontation with Yasam officers beyond what our reporter gathered at the scene.
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