JERUSALEM — An Israeli soldier was killed and a second person was wounded in a stabbing in an Israeli mall on Wednesday (July 3) that police said was a suspected terror attack.

Israel's Ynet news site named the accused assailant, who was killed in the attack, as Joud Rabia from Nahaf, a town where members of Israel's Arab minority live.

There was no claim of responsibility from any group, though militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a post on the Telegram site described the attack as a "heroic operation."

Closed circuit television images from inside the mall, in Karmiel in northern Israel, showed two men in Israeli military uniform, with their guns slung at their sides, walking casually through the mall.

In the CCTV images, broadcast by Israel's Channel 12 TV station, a man in a blue T-shirt could be seen rushing up from behind the two men, stabbing one of them in the neck area, and then stabbing the second person.

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