8 Injured in Palestinian Car-Ramming, Stabbing in Tel Aviv

TEL AVIV—A Palestinian terrorist rammed a pickup truck into pedestrians in Tel Aviv and then went on a stabbing rampage, wounding eight people on Tuesday in an attack claimed by the Hamas terrorist group as retaliation for a major Israeli operation in the West Bank. At least five people were in serious condition, the two hospitals treating them said. Israeli news website Ynet said one of the casualties was a pregnant woman, but the hospital could not confirm that for privacy reasons, it said. The 20-year-old Palestinian assailant, from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was shot dead by an armed civilian, police said. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said he entered Israel without a permit and had no record of security offenses. The attack in Israel's commercial capital took place as more than 1,000 Israeli troops were engaged in the second day of an operation against Palestinian terrorists in the Jenin refugee camp, one of the flashpoints in more than a year of escalating violence in the occupied West Bank.