A border fighter who was injured in the stabbing attack last night (Wednesday) near the Ateret Cohanim yeshiva on Hagai Street in the Old City of Jerusalem, recounted the moment she and her partner were attacked and how they managed to take control of the terrorist, a 16-year-old Palestinian who was killed in the incident.
Border fighter recreates stabbing attack in Old City, November 2021 Photo: Police spokeswoman
From her hospital bed, the fighter said: "My partner and I were at the hospice junction yesterday around five in the afternoon.
Because this is a static position, he suggested we go for a little tour.
We started something like seven seconds to go until I saw the terrorist, who was not yet known as a terrorist.
I saw someone dressed in black, walking among the crowd of people.
He moved towards us and I suddenly realized that he was stabbing my partner. "
She added that "at first I thought it was an assault on police officers because they did not see the knife he had in his hand and it looked like he was punching him in the head, the partner with me went a few steps back and I attacked him. Then he started trying to stab me and later I realized he had a knife in his hand "He tried to snatch my weapon, cut me by the hand, cut really deep, while he kept trying to snatch my weapon."
The knife with which the stabbing attack was carried out on Hagai Street, Old City, Jerusalem, Photo: Israel Police
"He stabbed me in the head and I started bleeding. While I was bleeding I kept fighting him, but I realized it would not go so well so I went a few steps back and happened to pass by the yeshiva rabbi who had a weapon. He fired two shots and the terrorist was neutralized to the floor. We thought he was dead but "He got up and moved his body. I stood on it with my leg so he could not get up and he said a few sentences in Arabic," she added.
"I shouted at my partner that I was bleeding and at the same time he shouted in connection that there was an attack. I took a few steps back, the partner with whom he fired two shots and neutralized him. Teams who treated us and evacuated us to the hospital. In such situations I learned to think "I need to find the possibility that will lead to minimal damage, so I confronted the terrorist when my partner was trying to find a firing line. Learn to not get cold feet and reduce the incident as soon as possible," she concluded.
