Ilia Nozadze, 42, a citizen of Georgia, was one of seven people killed in the terror attack perpetrated by two terrorists in Jaffa this evening (Tuesday, 1 October 2024). Six victims were pronounced dead on the scene, the seventh succumbed to wounds after arrival at the hospital. Another 16 people were wounded in the attack.

Severely wounded in the attack, Ilia was evacuated in a critical state to the Ichilov-Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, where he succumbed to his wounds. He is survived by his wife and two children who live in Georgia. The Georgian embassy in Israel has made arrangements to return his body to Georgia for burial.

The two Palestinian assailants, identified as residents of the West Bank city of Hebron, were in Israel illegally. According to police, one of the assailants was armed with a rifle and the other with a knife, and they attacked light-rail passengers and passers-by near a light-rail station on Jaffa's Jerusalem Boulevard. Security forces subsequently neutralized both perpetrators.

The terror attack — one of the deadliest single attacks in Israel in recent years — came just minutes before Iran launched a massive missile attack on Israel.