Arab Killed; Serial Attacker Suspected
An Arab man was knifed to death in Jerusalem by a masked assailant Israeli police suspected was a Jewish serial stabber of Palestinians. A police spokesman said Osama Musa abu Aisha, 41, was stabbed before dawn today in Abu Tor, a west Jerusalem neighborhood divided into Arab and Jewish sections. A police spokesman said a suspected Jewish serial attacker had killed two Arabs and wounded five others in knifings in the past year. Previous attacks reportedly committed by the suspected assailant mainly took place in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim.
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