A deadly stabbing attack rocked Haifa’s Lev Hamifratz central bus station on Monday morning, claiming the life of an Arab Israeli man man in his 70s and injuring four others. Israeli authorities have labeled the assault a terrorist attack, the first fatal incident in Israel since the Gaza ceasefire began on January 19, 2025.
The assailant, identified as 20-year-old Yitro Shaheen from Shfaram, a Druze town in northern Israel, was fatally shot at the scene by a security guard and a civilian. Witnesses reported that Shaheen shouted “Allahu Akbar” before launching the attack, stabbing passengers indiscriminately after stepping off a bus from Shfaram. Police say Shaheen, an Israeli citizen, had recently returned from abroad after several months away.
Emergency responders from Magen David Adom (MDA) pronounced the elderly victim dead at the scene and rushed the injured—a man and woman in their 30s, a 15-year-old boy, all seriously wounded, and a woman around 70 in moderate condition—to Rambam Hospital for treatment.
