Initial reports by Israeli media suggested the incident involved a shooting, but it was later clarified as a stabbing attack.

TEL AVIV - Israeli police said that several people were injured in a shooting in the commercial hub Tel Aviv on Jan 18, while emergency service providers reported that one person was wounded by stabbing.

Salah Yahye, the 19-year-old attacker, was shot dead by an armed civilian during the incident on Saturday afternoon at 4.30pm local time. Magen David Adom, the emergency service provider, said staff were treating one male victim in his thirties who was taken to hospital in a conscious state.

According to a report by the Times of Israel, the attacker has been identified as a 19-year-old man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem named Salah Yahye. He entered the country illegally and was shot

A man was seriously injured in a knife attack on Saturday in the centre of the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. The victim was taken to hospital, according to a spokeswoman for the clinic treating him.

The Magen David Adom, Israel's national ambulance service, said medical teams were providing treatment to a 30- year-old man "injured by stabbing." A passerby shot the attacker, according to Magen David Adom.

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