JERUSALEM: Two Arabs killed two people and wounded four others in a shooting spree in central Israel on Sunday before they were killed by police.

It was the second deadly nationalist attack carried out by Arabs in an Israeli city in less than a week. On Tuesday, a lone attacker inspired by the militant Islamic State group killed four people in a stabbing rampage in southern Israel before he was killed by passersby.

Israeli officials said the two men were Arab citizens from northern Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rushed to the scene.

while Foreign Minister Yair Lapid briefed his counterparts from the US and four Arab countries, who condemned the attack.

Camera footage circulating on Israeli media showed two bearded men appearing to open fire in the city of Hadera before they are shot.

An Israeli official said two members of a border police unit who were in a restaurant near the attack, ran out and killed the shooters.

Published in Dawn, March 28th, 2022