Tel Aviv stabbing spree leaves 1 dead, 12 hurt as Joe Biden visits

A Palestinian went on a stabbing spree along the Tel Aviv waterfront Tuesday as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the city, leaving an American tourist dead and 12 people wounded, police said. The attacker around 21 years old from the town of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank was shot dead by police, Israeli authorities said. Video that spread online showed a man running down a road and lunging at someone through a car window while being chased. The attack caused panic, and one witness told Israeli television he hit the assailant with his guitar, with a hole visible in the wood of his instrument. Police said the attacker wounded a number of people in the Jaffa port area, a touristic zone of Israel's commercial capital, before going on toward a restaurant and stabbing others. There were no details on the American's identity. Biden met former Israeli president Shimon Peres after his arrival at a location about a 15-minute walk from where the stabbings occurred. "I heard two guys screaming that there was an attack," said a woman who gave her name as Emily. A Palestinian went on a stabbing spree in a touristic area of the Tel Aviv waterfront Tuesday as US Vice President Joe Biden arrived in the city, leaving one dead and 12 wounded, police said.