Israel launched a major military operation Tuesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin that killed at least nine Palestinians and left at least 40 more people wounded, Palestinian health officials said,

Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack on Tuesday in Tel Aviv while the attacker was killed, Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said. The police said an initial investigation "revealed that a terrorist armed with a knife stabbed three civilians on Nahalat Binyamin Street and one civilian on Gruzenberg Street".

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, on Tuesday, sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announcing that he would resign on March 6 after two years and two months in office, about 10 months earlier than the standard three-year term.

Police did not identify the attacker but believe the stabbings were a terrorist act. Israel launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank that killed at least nine Palestinians.

Four people have been wounded in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv in which the attacker was killed, Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom said on Wednesday.

Four people were injured in a stabbing attack late Tuesday in central Tel Aviv. The attacker, a Moroccan-born U.S. permanent resident, was shot and "neutralized" by a civilian passerby as he attempted to flee the scene.

The action came a day after President Donald Trump said he will lift sanctions on ultranationalist Israeli settlers who attacked Palestinian villages.

A Palestinian terrorist stabbed an Israeli in broad daylight in Tel Aviv on Saturday, in a terrorist attack that concluded with the terrorist's elimination by an armed citizen. Police, who investigate the incident as a terrorist attack, said that the terrorist was a 19-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack in central Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening and the suspect was killed, according to Israeli police, as Israel’s fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza entered its third day.

This is the second stabbing in Tel Aviv in four days, after another person was attacked on Saturday before being shot by an armed civilian. Tuesday's attack took place on Nahalat Binyamin Street, an area popular for its restaurants and nightlife,