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Israelis Injured in Three Separate Palestinian Stabbing Attacks Today

Three Israelis were injured in as many stabbing attacks today, the first in Jerusalem, the second in the southern city of Kiryat Gat, and the third in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv.

In the first incident, a Palestinian assailant stabbed an Israeli man near the Lion’s Gate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported. The man, who was armed, quickly drew his pistol and shot his attacker.

“Upon arriving, I saw two patients,” MDA paramedic Aharon Adler told The Times of Israel. “One of them, an approximately 30-year-old male with stab wounds to his upper body, fully conscious; alongside him, a young woman with gunshot wounds. According to him, she came up and stabbed him twice from behind. And then she was shot.

“Her condition was worse than his,” he added. …

Both the stabber and her victim were evacuated to the Hadassah Hospital in the capital’s Ein Kerem neighborhood.

The woman is said to be in critical condition. Ofir Gendelman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesperson to the Arab media, said she had indicated her desire to orchestrate a terrorist attack only hours before the stabbing.

In the second incident, a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli soldier and stole his rifle after getting off a bus in Kiryat Gat, according to Ynet. The terrorist, named as Amjad al-Jundi, then fled to a nearby apartment building and broke into the home of a female resident. Al-Jundi reportedly tried to shoot the woman, but there were no bullets left in the gun’s cartridge and the woman escaped to a neighbor’s apartment. The terrorist was later killed in a shootout with police. A video of security forces approaching the building is embedded below.

In the latest incident, a Palestinian man stabbed a passerby near a busy shopping mall in Petah Tikva, according to The Times of Israel. The victim, who was wounded in the upper body, was taken to the hospital in moderate condition. According to a police statement, the terrorist was apprehended by bystanders at the scene and is in custody. Ynet identified the attacker as a resident of Hebron.

Today’s assaults come on the heels of two stabbing attacks in Jerusalem last week, which left two Israeli men dead and several others injured. An Israeli couple, Eitam and Naama Henkin, were gunned down in front of their four children in a West Bank shooting attack only days earlier. A terrorist group affiliated with Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, took credit for the murders of the Henkins. Abbas did not condemn the Henkins’ murder or any of the attacks that followed.

[Photo: Alik Maor / YouTube ]