Palestinian assailant stabs three people in Rishon Lezion terror attack

The assailant was apprehended and is in police custody.
A Palestinian man stabbed three Israelis — including an elderly woman — in Rishon
Lezion on Monday, in the first terror attack in central Israel in weeks.
The attack began in the late afternoon, when the assailant — described by police as a 19-
year-old man from Hebron — stabbed a pedestrian on the corner of Herzel and Tarmav
Street, in the heart of the city when it was packed with commuters.
The terrorist then stabbed another victim on the sidewalk, police said, before stabbing a
third victim and walking into a cosmetics store.
A spokesman for the Central District said that when the attacker was inside the store, a
woman held the door closed, trapping him inside until a police patrol could arrive. Once
on the scene, police said officers apprehended the terrorist and guarded him from
bystanders looking to attack him. As police forced the man into a patrol car, a rowdy
crowd of dozens of locals crowded in the street around the police cruiser, with some
shouting for the man to be killed.
The victims of the attack included an 80-year-old woman from Rishon Lezion who was
seriously wounded, a 31 -year-old man from Bnei Brak with serious injuries, and a 26-
year-old man from Rishon Lezion who was lightly hurt. Five other people were treated
for shock at the scene, police said.
Magen David Adom sent out a statement after the attack saying that paramedics who
arrived at the scene found the 80-year-old victim lying on the sidewalk conscious and
bleeding with an open stab wound to her upper body, and nearby was the 26-year-old
victim, sitting on the pavement with a stab wound to one of his legs. The third victim was
treated by MDA on a bus and told paramedics that there was mass confusion on the bus,
and he suddenly felt a blow to his back, and lied down
The incident is the first stabbing attack in the Tel Aviv area since October 8th, when a
Palestinian man from east Jerusalem armed with a screwdriver stabbed a female soldier
and four Other bystanders, before he was shot and killed by a soldier at the scene. Though
initially most of the attacks were in Jerusalem, in recent weeks they have moved almost
entirely to the West Bank, in particular to the Hebron area.

Citation: Hartman, Ben. "The Jerusalem Post". November 2, 2015. Jpost Inc. November 2, 2015. <http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Breaking-Suspected-terror-attack-in-Rishon-Lezion-3-wounded-431802>

Response: This article is another sad story that portrays the conflict in the Middle East. There seems to be bias towards the Israelis and against the Palestinian shooter. This is a good example of how the conflict between Israel and Palestine is not just between the governments and the high up officials but is also between the civilians from each of these two nations. I think this was a good informational article on this topic but it does show the intense conflict in these areas.