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Five Israeli police wounded in attack
* From: AAP
* August 29, 2011 11:54AM
A PALESTINIAN attacker has wounded five Israeli policemen and
civilians near a Tel Aviv nightclub early today, hitting several
people with his car and then stabbing others, police said.
The attacker was a 19-year-old from the Palestinian city of
Nablus, according to Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
Just before 2am, the attacker hit two people with a car that was
apparently stolen, she said.
He then got out of the car and stabbed three others. Samri said he
was shouting "Allahu akbar" - Arabic for "God is great", a phrase
often used as a battle-cry by Islamic militants.
The attacker was arrested. He was injured and was taken to a
hospital.
Samri said the wounded include several policemen who were manning
a police checkpoint near the Oman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv,
Israel's metropolitan center.
Such attacks inside Israel, once common, have fallen off in recent
years as Israeli and Palestinian forces have restored security in
the adjacent Palestinian territory of the West Bank. But some
violence has continued. One Israeli was killed in a similar attack
with a vehicle in Tel Aviv in May.