Jerusalem – Two Yeshiva Students Stabbed By Terrorist At Light Rail Station

Jerusalem – Two yeshiva students were injured in a terrorist attack near the light rail station on Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill Friday afternoon.

The two victims, 22 and 20 years old, were evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Hadassah University Medical center for medical treatment; They sustained light-to-moderate injuries. One of the victims was stabbed in the upper body, while the other was shot in the leg.

The terrorist was subdued after the incident and is in critical condition.

The attack was the second within the hour.

Less than an hour earlier, two Palestinian assailants approached the West Bank Tapuah Junction roadblock on a scooter. At that point they drew their knives and attempted to stab a border guard stationed at the crossing, according to a statement released by police.

One of the attackers managed to lightly injure one of the officers on the hand before the assailants were shot and subdued by an additional Border Guard stationed at the post.

One was killed in the incident, while the other remains in critical condition.

The injured officer was treated at the scene and remains in light condition.

On Thursday, an Israeli soldier and a pregnant woman were lightly injured by Palestinians as violence continued to rage in the West Bank, primarily around the Hebron area.

Security forces killed two knife wielding Palestinians in two separate incidents that occurred within hours of each other in Hebron.

The day of violence began in the morning, at a spot in Hebron called Check- point 160 – on the road from Kiryat Arba to the Cave of the Patriarchs – where a Palestinian assailant stabbed and lightly wounded an IDF soldier in the head.

The officer quickly recovered from the attack and chased the assailant who tried to stab a border policeman at the scene.

Another Border Police officer standing nearby shot and killed the assailant, according to a police statement. The soldier was treated at the scene and transported by a Magen David Adom ambulance to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem.

A few hours later outside of Hebron, Palestinians threw stones at cars on Route 60 near by the village of Beit Einun. A pregnant woman was lightly injured in the face by glass shards from the shattered window of her vehicle.