The stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion intersection: Shortly after the stabbing attempt, the lightly injured Gush Yehoshua Lorch recounted what happened.
""I was standing at the traffic light and talking to someone I knew who had stopped for a ride," Lorch said. "While I was talking to him, I felt a blow to the back of my head, on the left side. I was a little shocked until I managed to turn around and saw a black mass moving away from me, which turned out to be the terrorist.".
Lorch recalled: "In the meantime, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that there was a knife stuck in the back of my head. I pulled it out, I didn't feel a stab, I felt something like a dry blow. It's simply a miracle," he summed up the event.
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The terrorist, Amal Fakhri Takata, arrived at the Gush intersection this morning with a knife with the intention of harming a Jew, but failed. Lorch was very slightly injured, as can be seen in the video.
The terrorist tried to escape, but a force of fighters from the Duchifat Battalion from the Kfir Brigade who were at the scene shot the terrorist – and seriously wounded her.
MDA paramedic Eyal Zahavi, who arrived at the scene, said: "This is an attempted stabbing attack at the Gush junction. A civilian who was lightly injured received initial medical treatment on the spot and did not need to be evacuated to the hospital. The terrorist, a young woman about 20 years old, was lying nearby. She was shot by security forces and seriously injured in her upper body. Together with a military medical team, we provided her with medical treatment and she was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital by a military intensive care unit.".
According to the website of the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds, the terrorist is Amal Fakhri Takatka, 22, from the village of Beit Fajar near Gush Etzion, who belongs to the Fatah movement and was detained in Israel for a year, after stabbing a soldier in the same place.
