Israeli defense minister orders military action against attack accused's village Defence minister Israel Katz on Friday said that he had instructed the Israeli military to act “forcefully and immediately” against the northern West Bank village of Qabatiya. The comments come as Israeli news outlets report that the perpetrator of the attack in Israel that killed two was Ahmad Abu al-Rub, a 37-year-old from Qabatiya. Two people were killed on Friday after an attacker rammed a 68-year-old man and then stabbed a young woman at two separate sites in northern Israel, local media reported. Israel police chief Danny Levy said that the attacker was killed.