Akiva Schwartz, a 17-year-old yeshiva student, was injured by shrapnel in his legs in the murderous shooting attack at the entrance to Jerusalem this morning (Thursday) - in which three ultra-Orthodox Jews were murdered.
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Schwartz, a student at the Netivei HaTorah yeshiva who lives in Kiryat Moshe, recreated from Hadassah Hospital the moments of the attack, which occurred while he was on his way to school.
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""I missed the bus and was waiting at the stop," he said. "I heard shots, turned around and saw a man holding a gun. I started running and suddenly I felt pain in my leg. I started limping.".
He added: "I saw a lot of ambulances arriving and I knocked on the window of one of them. I told them I had a leg injury - they treated me and took me to the hospital.".
Murdered in the shooting attack were Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a 73-year-old Belza Hasid, a resident of Sorotzkin Street in Jerusalem, Mrs. Hanna Ifergan, 67, principal of the 'Bnat Hadassah' school in Beit Shemesh, and Mrs. Livia Dickman, 24, a teacher at an independent education school, a resident of the Har Nof neighborhood.
Six other people were injured in the attack, two of them seriously, three moderately and one lightly. One of those injured in the attack was Rabbi Avidan Moshe ben Mina Rivka Speiner - a judge at the Be'er Sheva court.
The terrorists who carried out the attack were two brothers from the Umm Lisun neighborhood in East Jerusalem, who were shot to death. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
The terrorists previously served prison sentences after being convicted of terrorist acts. Murad Nimr, 38, a resident of East Jerusalem, a Hamas activist who was imprisoned between 2010 and 2020 on the grounds of intentions to carry out terrorist activities directed at the Gaza Strip. Ibrahim Nimr, Murad's brother, 30, a resident of East Jerusalem, is also a Hamas activist. He was imprisoned in 2014 on the grounds of terrorist activities.
