Israel – An Israeli Defense Forces soldier suffered light to moderate stab wounds, after being knifed while getting off a Ramat Gan bus.
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Magen David Adom emergency services paramedics were called to the scene and the police have launched an investigation.
The incident took place on a Dan number 67 bus – a double articulated bus – in central Ramat Gan. According to eyewitness accounts the assailant, “who looked like an Arab,” fled the scene on foot and a manhunt was subsequently launched by security forces.
Police are looking into the possibility of a nationalistically motivated attack, but are not ruling out other motives at this time.
‘We received a call about a stabbing and were dispatched to the scene,” a MDA paramedic said. “We found a 20-year-old soldier with a jugular stab wound, stretching all the way to his ear. He was fully conscious. We stopped the bleeding and took him to the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.”
According to one of the passengers on the bus, the soldier was sitting on the back of the bus, when he suddenly began screaming. “We looked at him and saw that he had a knife stuck in his throat,” she said.
“People began yelling “Stop! Stop!’ so I did, and then I saw the soldier running in one direction and the suspect in another,” Shalom Barda, the bus driver, said. “Then I saw someone try to get on the bus through the back door, which is forbidden, so I closed it manually.
“It’s lucky, because if I had waited for it to close automatically, he (the suspect) would have been able to get back on the bus. The soldier was clearly in shock and he started running. I probably would have done the same.”
Major-General David Biton, of the Dan Subdistrict Police held a police briefing and said “The description of the suspect fits one of a minority, but we have nothing else to indicate that this was a terror attack. The motive is still unclear.
“According to the soldier, he was getting off the bus when the suspect stabbed him in the neck. It appears that suspect road the but. He got off the bus and fled on foot. We have large police forces canvassing the area looking for him.”
Wasn’t the satmer rabbi right with when he said that it will never be peace in that land?
Oh, like it or not, thousands of erliche yidden care about what the daas torah amitti had to say, the satmar rebbe’s heart was bleeding about yidden being killed in those wars, he was only saying that we were at fault for being rebellious against the gzairus hagulas by hashem
Number 3 very well said. Thank you for stating it clear and concise
I don’t see any connection to satmar related to this story, some people are one track minded