MIDEAST-ISRAEL/VIOLENCE UPDATE Israeli soldier stabbed in suspected Palestinian attack in Tel Aviv - police

Record ID: 398753

  • Title: MIDEAST-ISRAEL/VIOLENCE UPDATE Israeli soldier stabbed in suspected Palestinian attack in Tel Aviv - police
  • Date: 10th November 2014
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 10, 2014) (REUTERS) AREA WHERE A PALESTINIAN STABBED ISRAELI SOLDIER VARIOUS OF POLICE AND PARAMEDICS AT SITE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ISRAELI POLICE SPOKESMAN, MICKEY ROSENFELD, SAYING: "The Israeli police responded to a stabbing attack at the train station in Tel Aviv, quickly the units were on site. And the suspect fled from the area, 200 meters
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: General
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  • Story Text: An Israeli soldier was stabbed and critically wounded by a Palestinian near a Tel Aviv train station on Monday (November 10), police said, as anti-Israel violence that has raised concern about a new Palestinian uprising in the making reached the country's business capital.
    Police said the soldier had been stabbed several times and that they had identified the suspected attacker, who was been arrested, as a resident of the Palestinian town of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
    They said the assault was apparently politically motivated.
    "The Israeli police responded to a stabbing attack at the train station in Tel Aviv, quickly the units were on site. And the suspect fled from the area, 200 meters away from the area we are now. At the moment the Israeli police have cordoned off the area and the suspect himself has been in questioned, and we've confirmed that 22 year- the suspect himself who carried out the attack is from Nablus," spokesman of Israeli police, Mickey Rosenfeld said.
    A spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said the Israeli soldier, aged about 20, was rushed to hospital after Monday's stabbing in Tel Aviv.
    "He (the attacker) said he was not feeling well, and that he was injured in his leg and arm and indeed we have noticed he had injuries in his leg and arm and as a result there were blood stains which led us to his place of hiding," said Israeli policeman Galil Amasa.
    There was no immediate Palestinian comment.
    Israeli-Palestinian tensions have festered over access to a Jerusalem compound housing Islam's third holiest site and where biblical Jewish temples once stood. Stone-throwing protests have also erupted in several Arab towns in Israel since Saturday (November 8), when police killed an Arab youth who assaulted them.
    Five days ago, a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians in central Jerusalem, the second such incident of its kind in as many weeks, killing two Israelis. Police shot the driver dead.
    After those attacks, Israeli authorities placed large concrete blocks on train platforms in Jerusalem to serve as obstacles to any vehicles attempting to ram into commuters.
    Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads a far-right party in the governing coalition, said such defensive measures only projected weakness. "This is a terrible terror attack that proves that the concept of hiding behind barriers is bankrupt," he said in a statement after the Tel Aviv stabbing.
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