Israeli citizens stopped what might have been a real tragedy in Afula Tuesday evening when they spotted three suspicious-looking young Arab men on Arlozorov Street.

Israel Police officers launched a search for the suspects and within minutes had stopped and searched the trio when they spotted one throwing away an object, which turned out to be a large butcher knife.

The other two men likewise were carrying matching butcher knives, sharpened in clear readiness for an attack.

All three men lacked entry and identification documents and were residents of the Palestinian Authority city of Jenin.

They were immediately arrested and taken to the local police station for questioning.

Initial reports indicate that 2 masked people attacked a school guard in the northern town of Afula, at the Nofim school, according to a TPS report.

The attack happened around 7:30 AM.

The 50-year-old guard was lightly to moderately injured according to MDA, and the guard says the attackers stole his weapon.

The guard has a head injury after being hit with an iron pole.

The attackers have escaped.

Police believe the attack was criminal, apparently in order to steal his weapon.

Searched are going on for the attackers.

Traffic police stopped a commercial vehicle near Afula on Wednesday and discovered two Arabs from Jenin dressed as Jews with counterfeit Israeli ID cards.

The two have been taken in for interrogation and the police plan on requesting an extension to hold them for longer.

A female Arab terrorist was caught in Afula (again) as she tried to stab a guard at the entrance to Afula’s central bus station.

The police opened fire and seriously wounded the terrorist.

No one was injured.

The woman was identified as an Israeli-Arab from Nazareth.

The security camera footage from the Afula terror attack on Thursday evening.

Nine Israeli police officers were wounded and a 20-year-old Arab terrorist was killed Thursday evening in clashes that took place in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat.

Masked Arabs attempted to block Israeli security personnel from entering the neighborhood to search the home of the terrorist who stabbed a yeshiva student earlier in the day at a Light Rail station in the capital.

The rioting Arabs hurled firebombs and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at the security forces.

Also Thursday, a 20-year-old Jewish man was stabbed by an Arab terrorist in the northern Israeli town of Afula. A few hours later, an IDF soldier was stabbed twice in the chest in another terror attack in the same town. According to Yossi Fahima, director of Magen David Adom emergency services in Afula, the victim was conscious when he was evacuated to a nearby medical center in serious condition.

The terrorist was captured and arrested within minutes of the attack. “The terrorist was not wounded, other than from blows he received from civilians, and [he] was rescued from the angry mob,” Fahima said.

An IDF soldier was stabbed and seriously injured in a stabbing on Arlozorov Street in Afula on Thursday evening, along with a second person.

The terrorist was captured by Afula locals: