Arab Woman Stabs Jewish Teen in Jerusalem
An Arab woman stabbed a Jewish seminary student in the back at an entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday, police said.
“He was wounded by a kitchen knife that was plunged into the upper part of his back near his spine. He sustained moderate injuries,” said a doctor at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.
A police spokeswoman said the 15-year-old was on his way to the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest shrine, for Sabbath prayers when he was attacked by the Arab woman at Damascus Gate.
The woman fled, and police later said they arrested a suspect matching her description.
After the incident, a small group of Palestinian youths threw stones at Israeli police in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem, and several arrests were made.
In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, about 50 Arabs hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at Israeli soldiers, who responded by firing rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas. Palestinian health officials said seven youths were slightly wounded.
It was the second day of violence in Bethlehem after the death in an Israeli hospital of an 18-year-old Palestinian held by police on suspicion of car theft.
The man died Thursday of injuries that Israeli authorities said he sustained in a jail cell suicide attempt two weeks ago. Palestinians have accused Israel of torturing him to death.
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