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One American was killed and 11 other were people wounded during a stabbing attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said.
Authorities were called to the port in the city's Jaffa district around 6:15 p.m. local time to respond to a report that four people had been stabbed, police said in a statement. The knife-wielding attacker was able to flee on foot to another area in the city and stab more people, before ultimately being shot and killed by police.
Video posted to YouTube purported to show police cautiously approaching the assailant's body. "It's OK. He's neutralized," one man can be heard saying.
Police Chief Ronnie Alsheikh said the "terrorist attacks are over and there are no other terrorists on the run."
The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz reported the attacker was a 22-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank.
An American tourist was among those attacked, but later died in hospital, police told Israeli media.
Vice President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel earlier on Tuesday, condemned the attack during a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv.
"[Biden] expressed his sorrow at the tragic loss of American life and offered his condolences to the family of the American citizen murdered in the attack, as well as his wishes for a full and quick recovery for the wounded," read a statement from the White House.
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The attack in Jaffa came shortly after two separate incidents in the country, one of which saw a gunman attack and wound two police officers in Jerusalem.
In a statement, police said the attacker, whom they called a "terrorist," was "neutralized."
Separately in Tel Aviv, another person was "moderately wounded" in a stabbing attack in the suburb of Petah Tikva.
Sheera Frenkel contributed to this report.
SOURCE: BuzzFeed
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