06-Dec-15: Vehicle-ramming and knifing on busy Jerusalem street tonight

The assailant lies dead on Yirmiyahu Street after a
combined vehicle ramming and stabbing attack
[Image Source]

On a chilly, early-winter night, the first candle of Hannukah, Jerusalem has been the scene of another terror attack. At about 7:45 this evening, Sunday, there were reports of a stabbing on busy Yirmiyahu Street in the Romema section of the city. Times of Israel says the assault involved both stabbing and vehicle-ramming:

[T]he suspected assailant first attempted to ram his car into a crowd of people. After apparently crashing his car without hitting anyone, the suspect then exited the vehicle and began slashing at a 65-year-old police volunteer. The alleged attacker was then shot and killed by a soldier who happened to be at the scene. He was identified by police as a 21-year-old East Jerusalem resident. The police volunteer suffered mild stabbing wounds to his shoulder and was treated by a medical team that arrived at the scene. He was later transferred to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in the city. A second man, 20, was also rushed to Shaare Zedek after suffering light wounds when he was hit by a car. It was not clear if the vehicle that hit the 20-year-old belonged to the suspected assailant or to an uninvolved individual. Despite the proximity of the suspected attack to the main entrance to Jerusalem, the surrounding streets were all open to traffic. [Times of Israel]

Ynet's report says the attacker was stopped by an IDF service man who, having sized up the situation, got out of a bus that was passing by and fired at the Arab assailant, killing him and ensuring no further injuries to innocent Israelis. At this stage, we know only that the attacker was 21 and a resident of an Arab neighbourhood of Jerusalem, Beit Hanina.

Yirmiyahu (Jeremiah) Street is a main artery for buses and other vehicles, running between the city's principal gateway and the mainly Haredi neighbourhoods on Jerusalem's north side.

Continuing its traditional role of placing Palestinian Arab terrorists in the center of the victimhood stage irrespective of the facts, and unfailingly dismissing Arab terror attacks via the indiscriminate use of the word "alleged", Ma'an News Agency tonight leads its report of the attack with this headline:

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The illustration accompanying the report, depicting Jerusalem's Sha'ar Shechem (Damascus Gate), bears a negligible relationship to this evening's events. The same could be said of the headline.

29-Nov-15: A second Sunday morning stabbing in Jerusalem

Shamgar Street in Jerusalem's Romema quarter - the scene of this morning's
second Arab-on-Israeli stabbing [Image Source]

The knives - attached to the hands of malevolent Palestinian Arabs with murder on their minds - continue to be out and active here in Jerusalem.

A woman of about 30 was stabbed a little after 10 this morning in the second Arab-on-Israeli stabbing of the day. The report from the ambulance people says "When we arrived at the scene we saw a woman about 30 years of age with a stab wound to her upper body in the front seat of a bus." The bus was reported else as the number 418 line. Egged's website says this line originates in Beit Shemesh.

The assailant is being sought now via a manhunt in the buildings - and we assume the numerous construction sites - near and along the Shamgar Street in the Romema neighbourhood on the city's north side.

The victim was rushed to Shaarei Zedek Medical Center for emergency treatment.

UPDATE 12 noon Sunday November 29, 2015
Events have evolved. Here's a clarified version of what happened in the Shamgar/Romema neighbourhood a couple of hours ago, according to Times of Israel:

The attacker approached the woman from behind as she waited at a bus stop on Shamgar Street, stabbed her in her upper back and fled. The woman was taken onto bus number 418, which stood open at the stop, where medics treated her wound. Medics said she is fully conscious and stable.
The terrorist fled the scene, triggering a manhunt in nearby buildings and streets, according to police. Shortly after 11 a.m., police said they located the man, age 17 and half, hiding in a construction site nearby. He was identified as a Hebron resident, and police said he admitted he had carried out the attack. He also matched descriptions provided by eyewitnesses to the attack. The suspect was handed over to the special investigations unit of the Jerusalem Police for questioning. Two other suspected accomplices were also arrested by police nearby.

How old are the accomplices? We don't know yet.

The stabber, as with so many of these murder-minded young men and women, is not legally an adult. So let's chalk that up as yet another "victory" for the lethal education delivered by the PA and by UNRWA, the UN agency that's up to its eyeballs in the blood of Jewish victims and of Palestinian Arab wasted lives.

And let's never lose sight of where the money - without which that catastrophic grooming of haters, savages and killers could never happen - comes from.

UPDATE 9:00 pm Sunday November 29, 2015: The victim is Hisouri Tepalya, a Nepalese female national [Times of Israel], one of thousands engaging in caring for disabled and/or elderly Israelis. At least one of the PA's diplomatic missions in Europe thinks differently and, quoting the scurrilous WAFA news service which serves as the PA's authorized mouthpiece, calls her "an Israeli female settler [injured] in an alleged stabbing attack" [Website of the PA Mission to Denmark] because, well, everyone living in Israel is in their eyes a "settler" and just because there's a victim with serious knife wounds doesn't mean the Israelis ought to be believed.