Hours after the Tel Aviv stabbing attack that injured four, terrorist group Hamas praised the incident and called it ‘heroic’. The Palestinian resistance movement also called the attacker Abdelaziz Kaddi a ‘martyr’.

A foreign attacker stabbed five people in Tel Aviv on Tuesday before being shot dead, Israeli authorities said. The stabbing happened in a bustling nightlife spot of Israel's commercial capital, which an AFP photographer saw cordoned off by police.

Without claiming responsibility, Hamas praised the attack as a "heroic stabbing operation" and claimed the resistance to Israel was "increasing"