Attack: 14-year-old terrorist stabs Haredi woman in front of her children in Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood

December 8, 2021   

A 26-year-old Haredi woman, a resident of the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood in East Jerusalem, was stabbed in the back while walking with her children at the intersection at the entrance to the neighborhood. The vaccine for children aged 5-11 is recommended by doctors: a special response for parents The stabbing terrorist, 14, fled the scene of the incident and was later captured inside a school located near the scene of the attack. MDA medics and paramedics and United Hatzalah drivers treated the injured woman and evacuated her to Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Jerusalem. The hospital said: "A 26-year-old MDA patient who was injured in the back in a stabbing attack was evacuated to the trauma unit in the emergency department at Hadassah Mount Scopus. She is being treated in full consciousness and in a mild condition." Yechiel Stern, a United Hatzalah medic who provided her with first aid: "According to passersby, she was stabbed while walking with a baby stroller - when she took the children to school. I provided her with first aid at the scene and then she was evacuated to Hadassah Medical Center Mount Scopus in stable condition." MDA paramedics Moshe Cordoba and Dodi Gur: "When we arrived at the scene, we saw near the entrance to the tomb of Shimon the Righteous a woman with children who was on her way to bring them to the facilities when she was stabbed. She was fully conscious and walking. We provided her with life-saving medical treatment and urgently evacuated her to the hospital. On the way, she contacted us. The children were not injured and remained under the supervision of the police officers at the scene." [Gallery] The police said: This morning at around 7:30, the police hotline 100 received a report of a stabbing incident, according to which a suspect stabbed a woman in her 20s in the back with a knife in the Sheikh Jarrah area of ​​Jerusalem and fled the scene. Large police forces arrived at the scene within a short time, and began investigating the circumstances of the incident, conducting extensive searches in the area, in an attempt to trace the terrorist's escape route and her identity. Meanwhile, medical teams that arrived at the scene provided medical treatment to the woman who had been stabbed, and she was later taken to the hospital where her condition was described as mild. Initial investigations indicate that the woman, who was crossing the road with her children, was stabbed by a young woman with a knife and immediately after the incident fled the scene. After a police manhunt that included ground searches with the assistance of a police helicopter, the suspect in the incident, a 14-year-old resident of the area, was located inside an educational institution located hundreds of meters from the scene of the attack and was arrested by Jerusalem District police.

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The suspect was transferred for questioning to the central unit of the Jerusalem District, and in the meantime, several women from the suspect's entourage were also detained for questioning and interrogation by the police. Among those detained was the terrorist's mother. Jerusalem District Commander Superintendent Doron Turgeman said at the end of an assessment of the situation at the scene: "Following the stabbing attack that occurred this morning, we arrived at the scene with large forces and began rapid operations to locate the terrorist suspected of the act, including extensive searches and tracing her identity and escape route. Within a short time, the police arrested the suspect in the act inside a girls' school located near the scene of the attack and she was taken for questioning to be conducted by the Jerusalem Police. We will continue to fight terrorism with determination and act throughout the city to maintain public peace and security." Residents of the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood said in response: "In recent months since the Guardian of the Walls, terrorist incidents have continued to occur in the neighborhood, throwing stones, spraying pepper spray on passersby, burning vehicles and throwing Molotov cocktails. The police have abandoned our lives and now it has reached a serious attack. "We demand that the Israel Police and the government cut off terrorism in the neighborhood and throughout the country, because it is already too late.".