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.
"I ran in the opposite direction and ran into a man who was on the ground in his blood."
She said she "covered him with my jacket. He was badly injured and we waited together for the ambulances to come."
A wave of violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October has killed 184 Palestinians and 28 Israelis.
Most of the Palestinians were killed while carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities.
Others were shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes or demonstrations.
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