In a stabbing attack that took place on Sunday afternoon, Capt. Meni Kalchheim, a 49-year-old reserve officer from the community of Ateret in West Binyamin, was wounded by two stabbings in the back at a gas station near the community of Beit Aryeh. He was treated at the scene by MDA medical teams and evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva in moderate condition. The terrorist was apprehended by the fighters at the end of a chase that lasted about an hour.
After receiving medical treatment, he recounts what happened: "Today on my way home from the activity of my reserve unit, I returned from my home in Ateret in Binyamin and stopped for a moment to buy from the convenience store of the Rantis gas station. When I was at the checkout, I suddenly felt a strong blow behind me and someone was running away from the store. I started chasing him and shot at him, apparently wounding him."
Documentation of the attack at the gas station near the Rantis checkpoint // Security cameras
He goes on to talk about the advantage he had in the situation, being a soldier with a weapon who could react immediately: "I felt that thank God I was the one standing there, an officer in IDF uniform with a long weapon, who could respond. Any other resident who would have gone there might have gotten out of it differently."
"The Hamasniks with whom we are currently at war in Gaza, we are currently in the Israeli envelope, and all the Judea and Samaria people who are next to us do not want our existence, they do not want our lives here, and we have to fight them everywhere," Kalchheim added. "Thank you to G-d for saving me and for God's help there will also be salvation for all the people of Israel."
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