West Central Tribune · 6 May 2022
CP-2022-021
3 killed in axe attack in Israel; manhunt underway
Reuters, Jerusalem
Transcribed from the clipping
“JERUSALEM — Assailants killed three people with an axe and a knife in an Israeli town near Tel Aviv on Thursday, police said, in the latest of a series of deadly attacks that have raised fears of wider conflict… Israeli forces launched a manhunt… The attack took place in Elad, a religious Jewish town near Tel Aviv, on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day… Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that rules Gaza, praised the attack but did not claim responsibility…”
Context added by this archive
A four-paragraph wire brief. Praised but not claimed — the formula that appears in nearly every attack story in this collection.
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"3 killed in axe attack in Israel; manhunt underway," West Central Tribune, 6 May 2022, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2022-021. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2022-021
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