4 killed in terrorist attack on Israeli shopping center

// International News Desk //
At least four people have been killed in an attack on a shopping center in Israel.
Several people were injured at the time. The condition of the injured is critical.
The incident took place at the Big Shopping Center in the southern city of Birsheba on Tuesday afternoon, the UK-based BBC reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett described the incident as a “heinous terrorist attack.”
Two video footage of the attack has already been released. In one, a man was seen standing on the side of the shopping center road with a large knife in his hand.
Other footage shows the man confronting a gunman who shot him when he tried to hit her.
Israel’s internal security agency says the attacker was an Israeli man who was once imprisoned for supporting the Islamic State (IS) group. His name is Muhammad Ghalib Ahmed Abu Alkian. Who is a high school teacher in the Bedouin town of Hura, about 19 kilometers from Beersheba.
In 2015, Alkian planned to travel to Syria to join IS. He was convicted and imprisoned. He was released in 2019.
The BBC could not confirm this information from independent sources.
The assailant first stabbed three people inside the shopping center at random with a knife. While fleeing from there, he hit another person in front of the center and killed another person.