Four people were injured in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Israel's emergency services said. Ichilov Hospital said it was treating three of the victims, including one with "a serious condition with a knife wound to the neck". The assailant, a 28-year-old foreign national, was shot dead at the scene, police said.

The attacker was a Moroccan citizen with American permanent residency and had entered Israel on a tourist visa on January 18.

At least four Israelis, including an army officer, were injured in a stabbing operation in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening.

Tel Aviv's Ichilov Medical Center reported that three victims of Tuesday night's terrorist stabbing attack were brought to its emergency room. One of them is in moderate to serious condition with a stab wound in his neck.

Police says that the person who attacked four people with a knife in Tel Aviv is a Moroccan national who entered Israel with a US residency permit.

A foreign attacker stabbed five people in Tel Aviv on Tuesday before being shot dead, Israeli authorities said. The stabbing happened in a bustling nightlife spot of Israel's commercial capital, which an AFP photographer saw cordoned off by police.

Police did not identify the attacker but believe the stabbings were a terrorist act. Israel launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed at least nine Palestinians.

The stabbing happened in a bustling nightlife spot of Israel’s commercial capital. Read more at straitstimes.com.