On 6 October 2024, a gunman carried out a shooting and stabbing attack in Beersheba's central station.

[5] Tensions between Israel and the occupied West Bank have steadily increased since the 7 October 2023 attacks, which killed about 1,200 people including 815 civilians.

[8][9] One person was killed and thirteen others were injured in the attack, which took place inside McDonald's at Beersheba's central bus station.

[10] Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that its paramedics treated nine individuals on-site for various injuries.

[11] The assailant was identified as Ahmad Said Suliman al-Uqbi, a 29-year-old Bedouin resident of the unrecognised village of Uqbi near Hura, who had a criminal record and was related to the perpetrator of the 2015 Beersheba bus station shooting, Muhanad al-Uqbi.