An Israeli Jewish jogger was moderately wounded in a stabbing near a West Bank settlement. The victim was stabbed in the shoulder on Feb. 9 at the entrance to Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc and taken to a Jerusalem hospital. Israeli security forces were searching the area for the attacker, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The victim, reported to be about 30, told a security guard in Neve Daniel that the assailant ran toward the nearby Palestinian village of Nahlin, according to the Jerusalem Post. Gush Etzion has been the scene of numerous attacks on Israeli Jews since the spate of Palestinian attacks began in October.
Meanwhile, on Feb. 8, an 11-year-old boy was stabbed several times in the back with scissors in the central Israeli city of Ramle. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital in moderate condition, police said.
The 17-year-old suspect, arrested after a short search, is from the Arab neighborhood of Jawarish in Ramle, according to police. Ramle is a mixed Jewish-Arab city.
The victim said he was walking down the street when the assailant stopped to ask him a question. The boy said the assailant then began stabbing him in the back with scissors. It was the second stabbing in Ramle in less than a week. On Feb. 4, two Israeli Arab teenage girls stabbed a guard at the city’s central bus station. — jta