| Location: | Beersheba, Israel |
| Date: | 6 October 2024 |
| Coordinates: | 31.2425°N 34.7967°W |
| Time: | 14:30 P.M. |
| Timezone: | GMT+3 |
| Type: | Mass shooting and stabbing[1] |
| Fatalities: | 2 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injuries: | 13 |
| Perpetrator: | Ahmad Said Suliman al-Uqbi |
On 6 October 2024, a day before the first anniversary of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel, a gunman carried out a shooting and stabbing attack in Beersheba's central station.[2] [3] Thirteen Israelis were wounded and one was killed.[4] The gunman was killed by Israeli security forces.[5]
Tensions between Israel and the occupied West Bank have steadily increased since the 7 October 2023 attacks, which killed about 1,200 people including 815 civilians. As of 23 September 2024, over 41,000 Palestinian civilians[6] and approximately 1,000 Israeli civilians[7] have been killed in the Israel-Hamas War.
Five days before this attack, there had been another attack on 1 October in Jaffa, Tel Aviv where two Hamas gunmen opened fire and killed seven and wounded seventeen before being killed by responding IDF troops and an armed civilian.[8] [9]
One person was killed and thirteen others were injured in the attack, which took place inside McDonald's at Beersheba's central bus station.[10] Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that its paramedics treated nine individuals on-site for various injuries.[11] Border Police Sgt. Shira Suslik, 19, from Beersheba, died from injuries caused by the attack.[10] MDA indicated that two individuals in serious condition, four in moderate condition, and two with minor injuries were being transferred to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.
The assailant was identified as Ahmad Said Suliman al-Uqbi, a 29-year-old Bedouin resident of the unrecognised village of Uqbi near Hura, who had a criminal record and was related to the perpetrator of the 2015 Beersheba bus station shooting, Muhanad al-Uqbi.[12]
915 civilians killed
828 on October 7 (including 258 foreign or dual national citizens and 14+ hostages in Gaza)
33 additional hostages in Gaza thought dead
27 on the Lebanese border
3 in Alexandria, Egypt
14 in the West Bank and Israel by 11 August 2024 (per OCHA oPt) not including 1 mistakenly killed by Israeli forces in Jerusalem and 3 killed by militants (2 near Ofra and 1 near Kedumim), bringing the total to 18 conflict-related deaths for the period
1 in Rafah, Gaza Strip
1 in Tel Aviv
3 in Allenby Bridge