Yeshiva World News
A young British tourist was stabbed to death in Jerusalem on Friday, officials said, close to the Old City as it was packed with vacationers celebrating Passover.
The attack took place in downtown Jerusalem in the area of Kikar Tzahal on Yafo Street.
According to Jerusalem Police Chief Yoram Halevy, the 57-year-old Ras el-Amud resident who perpetrated the stabbing attack on the Jerusalem light rail earlier today, erev Shabbos Chol Hamoed Pesach 5777, is a “mentally disturbed individual with a history of family violence”.
The call came in to EMS at 12:50PM for a stabbing on the Jerusalem light rail near Tzahal Square. The victim who was killed is reported to be in her 20s, sustaining stab wounds to her upper torso. She went into traumatic cardiac arrest and despite CPR and advanced life support measures, she was pronounced dead in the trauma unit of Hadassah Mt. Scopus Hospital. Unconfirmed but reliable reports state she was a Christian tourist visiting from Britain.
A second victim is a male in his 50s with a light leg injury sustained while trying to flee the terrorist. A third victim is a woman in advanced months of pregnancy knocked to the floor when the train came to a sudden halt. She was originally reported in light condition. They were both transported to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and are being evaluated at this time.
In one of the photos one can see the butcher’s knife used in the attack. The attacker was neutralized and is in police custody.
It does and it’s trying to tell is how she was murdered!!!
…is simply because the present Israeli government is weak-willed. #3, the lightrail travels through Shuafat, the village adjacent to Ramat Shlomo. Not only has them lightrail company used Arabic announcement on the rail, it also funded bicycle gifts to the Arab children in Shuafat as an “incentive” to get them to stop throwing rocks, which are really a bomb in speed when thrown from above at a car , rachmona litzlan. The only, and I repeat, only, way to stop these kinds of things is to have a government restructured according to Torah. I mean, completely. And that is our… Read more »
Ive always felt that the lightrail is a little dangerous. There is absolutely no security because there can’t be besides for a few security guards who are causally kind of wandering around and many times busy helping people with the ticket machine. If fifty people Jews and Arabs cram onto a train car with almost no security, this could happen.
means disarmed and restrained. He should have been permanently dispatched with or eliminated. This is not just or fair for the safety of the public ( humanity).
‘The attacker was neutralized and is in police custody’ Why wasn’t she killed????