A pregnant woman in her 20s was stabbed and killed in a criminal incident in Lod on Thursday morning, according to emergency services.
The stabbing took place in the Ramot Eshkol neighborhood of the city. The woman was transferred to Shamir Medical Center and a Cesarean section was conducted in an attempt to save her baby, but medical staff were unable to save the child.
A few hours after the stabbing, police arrested two relatives of the woman, one from Lod and one from a Bedouin village, on suspicion of involvement in the suspected murder.