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| Young Hassidim, like this afternoon’s stabbing victim, are frequent visitors to the ancient graves of the Mount of Olives [Image Source] |
Another violent Arab-on-Israeli incident is unfolding in Jerusalem as we write this.
We are working from initial reports only at this stage, but it appears an Israeli male of 18 was stabbed this afternoon (it’s now Thursday 3:00 pm) in the A-Tur neighbourhood of the city about half an hour ago.
The weapon is reported to be a screwdriver and the assailant is the subject of a police manhunt. The victim’s injuries at this early stage are being described as moderate which for the rest of us means serious.
At Ynet, they are reporting that he is a yeshiva student who was leaving the ancient Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery and walking in the direction of a bus stop when attacked and pushed to the ground and stabbed in the back and neck. Social media reports quoting sources at nearby Hadassah Mt Scopus emergency room confirm back and neck injuries to a young man who was visiting the thousands-of-years-old Jewish cemetery as part of a group of Slonimer Hassidim,
Arab-on-Israeli violence has, for decades, been part of the reality of visits to the thousands of hallowed graves (estimated to number 70,000) on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. A huge number of ancient Jewish tombstones were vandalized, sacked and appropriated for road-paving purposes during the Jordanian military occupation of the area between 1949 and 1967. Smashing and desecration of Jewish graves at the site by Arab youths are a daily reality [link].
More developments as we learn about them.
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