Tonight (Tuesday), around 20:00, a terrorist arrived on Jabotinsky Street in Bnei Brak armed with an M-16 assault rifle. At the Jabotinsky-Herzl junction, he shot at a scooter rider and missed. The terrorist continued on foot to Bialik Street, arrived at the grocery store and shot dead two men (23, 32) foreign nationals from Ukraine sitting at the entrance.
The terrorist went down Bialik Street in the direction of HaShanim Street and at the intersection encountered a resident of Bnei Brak (37) who was in his vehicle and shot him to death. From there, the terrorist continued on Second Street in the direction of Herzl Street, where he encountered a 30-year-old Bnei Brak resident who had a baby in his arms, and shot him to death and the baby was not harmed.
The terrorist turned onto Herzl Street, where he encountered the motorcyclists of the Bnei Brak station. The terrorist fired at them and hit Sergeant Amir Khoury in the chest, Sergeant A. got off the motorcycle and fired accurately at the terrorist, killing him. The death of the late Maj. Gen. Khoury was determined at Beilinson Hospital shortly after.
The commissioner, Chief of Staff Yaakov Shabtai, spoke on the phone with Sergeant A. and said: “You are heroes! Thanks to you, the lives of many civilians were saved tonight. You and the late Amir arrived quickly at the event and demonstrated striving for contact with heroism and professionalism Carry out a massacre of as many civilians as possible. I strengthen you and share in the grief over the fall of your partner in the weapon, the late Maj. Gen. Amir.