An Israeli man was stabbed and wounded by a Palestinian terrorist at a gas station off of Israel’s Route 443 on Sunday evening, The Jerusalem Post reports. The Palestinian attacker was shot and killed on the scene by security personnel, with the IDF saying that several other unidentified suspects were involved in the stabbing.
An Israeli Medical Emergency spokesman said after the incident, “When we arrived at the scene we were met with a 26 year old with stab wounds to the upper body and being treated by military medical forces. The victim said he was attacked while fueling his car. We then continued treatment and evacuated the victim to a Jerusalem hospital.”
A video from the scene of the attack is embedded below.
Route 443, a major highway connecting Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, was closed to Palestinian traffic following numerous fatal firebombing and shooting attacks on Israeli vehicles during the Second Intifada. In 2009, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled to reopen the road to non-Israeli traffic.
Last Thursday, a Palestinian driver rammed his car into three Israeli soldiers who were hitchhiking on Route 60 near Shiloh in the West Bank. The Palestinian terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad praised the attack, with the former calling it a “natural response to the crimes of the occupation.” This past Sunday, an Israeli woman was moderately wounded, suffering first- to second-degree burns on 15% of her body after a firebomb was thrown at her car near Beit Hanina.