At least two people have been killed and two others wounded in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv, Israeli officials say, with police reporting the Palestinian suspected attacker, who they say was from the city of Salfit in the West Bank was “neutralized” and later died in hospital.

The stabbings took place during morning rush hour near a gas station and a park in the city of Holon in the south of Tel Aviv, Israel’s ambulance service said on Sunday.