CCTV Footage of West Bank Knife Attack
- hace 10 años
A woman was stabbed outside the settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank by a man who had initially tried to drive his vehicle into a group of people waiting at a hitchhiking stop, according to police.
When the attempt was blocked by concrete traffic bollards, he left the vehicle and attacked the woman and two men with a knife. The two men, aged 26 and 50, were said to have suffered light to moderate wounds.
The attacker, named as Maher al-Hashlamun from the West Bank city of Hebron, was shot by a security guard from the nearby settlement and later died from his wounds. He was identified as a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group who had served time in Israeli jails for throwing Molotov cocktails.
The incident happened close to the Etzion junction, where three Israeli teenagers were abducted last June and subsequently found murdered.
When the attempt was blocked by concrete traffic bollards, he left the vehicle and attacked the woman and two men with a knife. The two men, aged 26 and 50, were said to have suffered light to moderate wounds.
The attacker, named as Maher al-Hashlamun from the West Bank city of Hebron, was shot by a security guard from the nearby settlement and later died from his wounds. He was identified as a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group who had served time in Israeli jails for throwing Molotov cocktails.
The incident happened close to the Etzion junction, where three Israeli teenagers were abducted last June and subsequently found murdered.