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2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack carried out on 01”. Today it says “combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack which occurred on 29 august 2011 when a palestinian attacker sto”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Radicalization of perpetrator”.
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2011 Tel Aviv nightclub attack was a combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack which occurred on 29 August 2011 when a Palestinian attacker stole an Israeli taxi cab and rammed it into a police checkpoint guarding the popular nightclub , Haoman 17 , in Tel Aviv which was filled with 2,000 Israeli teenagers. After crashing into the checkpoint, the attacker jumped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people. Four civilians, four police officers, and the assailant were injured in the attack. The assailant was living illegally in Israel at the time of the attack. The plan of the attacker allegedly was to strike some of the hundreds of teenagers present at the nightclub. Nevertheless, due to an Israel Border Police roadblock at the entrance and immediate response of the Border Police team during the stabbing spree, a much larger and fatal mass-casualty incident was prevented.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack carried out on 01”. Today it says “combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack which occurred on 29 august 2011 when a palestinian attacker sto”. Sections present on October 6, 2023 no longer exist: “Radicalization of perpetrator”. Read the current article and compare.
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combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack carried out on 01

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combined vehicular assault and stabbing attack which occurred on 29 august 2011 when a palestinian attacker sto

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