West Bank – The IDF identified the Israeli victim who died from a stabbing attack in the West Bank’s Binyamin region on Thursday as 21-year-old Nahal Brigade soldier Tuvia Yanai Weisman from Ma’aleh Machmesh.
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The IDF expressed its sympathy over his death and said his family has been informed of his passing.
The two Palestinian also wounded a second Israeli and was in a moderate condition, Israeli officials said.
An armed civilian shot the two teens, who were taken for treatment at Israeli hospitals in Jerusalem, the Israeli military said. Palestinian officials said both were 14.
A witness named only as Uziel told Army Radio the supermarket was packed at the time with Israeli and Palestinian shoppers.
“We heard screaming and it was clear there was an attack … Civilians and soldiers began running and shot one (attacker) … and then the another,” he said. “Everyone was shocked at how young they were.”
Israel’s President released a statement following the incident.
“A man returns from his day at work, stops to buy groceries for the Sabbath, and is taken away forever by murderous villains,” President Reuven Rivlin said in a statement. “We will stand strong and respond firmly to restore calm and normality to the lives of our citizens everywhere. We will defeat terrorism.”
“At this time of anguish and heartache, I wish to offer comfort to the bereaved family, and my prayers for the quick recovery of the wounded.”
more Jewish blood is spilled and BIBI just talks and gives back the bodies of terrorists.
Come on. They were only kids joking around….shoot to kill they shouldn’t see daylight again
The UN and all the human rights groups are going to condemn those terrible Israeli civilians who dared to stop the two poor innocent 14 year old arab children with excessive force! How dare they?! Now Israel had better medically treat these innocent palis who live under daily hardship and merely are acting as anyone in their situation would, as per ban ki moon y’sv, the chief anti Semite of the UN. Then as soon as they recover, release them so they can try again.
This war by Arabs against Jews will stop within 24 hours when the Israeli Government takes off it’s kid gloves and goes on the offensive. Appeasement of the enemy has never worked in the past. In 1939 Prime Minister Nevile Chamberlin of England came back from Nazi Germany with a “peace” of paper . The rest is history.