STABBING ATTACK IN ISRAEL

Gush Etzion Stabbing Attack

Click here to watch: Gush Etzion Stabbing Attack A female Arab terrorist arrived at Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Monday morning and tried to stab an IDF soldier, in an attack in which one person was lightly wounded according to Magen David Adom (MDA) reports.  The terrorist tried to flee the scene according to reports, evidently after the soldier managed to fight her off, but IDF soldiers on patrol who were active in the area shot her and wounded her critically. Video from the scene of the attack was uploaded by the Hebrew-language site 0404 News.  In it the cameraman can be heard describing the scene as police are around the terrorist as she is on the ground and shoot to confirm she posed no threat, out of concern she may have been wearing a bomb belt. However, apparently the terrorist was not killed as she was evacuated to a hospital. MDA paramedic Eyal Zahavi who was at the scene of the attack said "this was a stabbing attack attempt at the Gush Junction, a citizen was wounded in mild condition and received first aid on site and didn't need to be evacuated to the hospital."  "The terrorist, a youth in her twenties who was shot by security forces and was critically wounded in her upper body, lay nearby. Together with military medical forces we gave her medical treatment and she was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital by a military emergency care vehicle," added Zahavi. An IDF statement read "security forces on site overpowered the suspect and transferred her for further medical assistance," reports AFP.  Dalia Lemkos hy"d, aged 26, was murdered in a terrorist attack the left two others wounded at the same Gush Etzion Junction last month, mere feet from the hitchhiking station where Eyal Yifrah (19), Naftali Frenkel (16) and Gilad Sha'ar (16) hy''d were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists in June Earlier on Monday morning Border Patrol officers arrested an Arab terrorist who arrived at Tapuach Checkpoint in northern Samaria carrying a knife, thereby foiling a stabbing attack. At around 8 a.m. the terrorist arrived at the checkpoint walking from the Arab village of Yatma to the east.  The suspicions of a Border Patrol officer of the Alon Battallion who manned the surveillance position at the checkpoint were raised as the terrorist approached wearing a hood. "I immediately shouted to him to stop in place, but when he continued walking and didn't stop I went on to report to the checkpoint commander," the officer said.  On receiving the report, the commander and another soldier began running towards where they were told the suspect was. The officer and his comrade ordered the man to stop, and only after they cocked their weapons did he do so, at which they cautiously approached him to conduct a search which he refused. The officers then used reasonable force to subdue the terrorist, and found a knife on his person. He was carrying no identification and refused to give his identity. Additional Border Patrol and IDF forces arrived on the scene, while the Battalion commander began investigating the suspect. Source: Arutz Sheva