Seven Israelis have been injured in the city of Tel Aviv after a Palestinian man hit a police checkpoint with a car and stabbed passers-by

Seven Israelis have been injured in the city of Tel Aviv after a Palestinian man hit a police checkpoint with a car and stabbed passers-by, police say.

Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the attacker “stole a taxi in the south of the city just before 2am on Sunday, stabbed the driver and then drove into a checkpoint near a popular nightclub.”

“He then got out of the car and stabbed civilians and officers”, she said.

The attacker, a man in his twenties from the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, was injured while resisting arrest, Samri said.

"The Palestinian was tackled and slightly injured," she said. He was to be questioned in hospital by the internal security service.

Four police were wounded in the attack, which Samri said appeared to be carried out "for nationalist motives". One of the injured was said to be in a critical condition.

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