Woman, Border Policeman Wounded in Two Jerusalem Stabbing Attacks

In first incident in the Old City, assailant shot and killed; victim in second attack
was a foreign worker.
Nir Hasson and Jack Khoury Nov 29, 2015 3:28 PM
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The scene of the stabbing in Jerusalem, November 29, 2015.Hatzalah
A Border Policeman and a 30-year-old woman were wounded in two stabbing
attacks in Jerusalem on Sunday morning.
The who woman, who was stabbed in the back while waiting at a bus stop on
Shmagar Street in Jerusalem, was named by Ynet as Hisorai Taplaya, 31, a
foreign worker from Nepal
In the first incident, a Border Police officer, in his 20s, was wounded at the
entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem. The Palestinian assailant was shot and
killed.
Israeli policemen detain a Palestinian suspect in a construction site near the
area where he stabbed a woman in Jerusalem, November 29, 2015.Lior Mizrahi
A few hours later, Magen David Adom rescue services reported another
stabbing attack near a bus in the city. The victim was moderately wounded and
the assailant fled the scene. A suspected assailant was detained later.
The first attack occurred just before 8 A.M. near Damascus Gate. According to
the Magen David Adom rescue services spokesman, the officer suffered light to
moderate stab wounds to the upper body. He was evacuated to Hadassah
University Hospital in Ein Karem.
skip - The scene of the stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Sunday morning.
Reuters
The assailant, a Palestinian resident from the West Bank in his late 30s, came
out of Damascus Gate and encountered two Border Police officers. The police
report stated that he shouted "Allahu Akbar" and stabbed one of the officers in
the neck.
skip - Map of Jerusalem stabbings
The assailant was shot and killed. Another knife was found on his person. The
stabbing took place very close to the location where Nehemia Lavi and Aharon
Bennett were killed in a stabbing attack on October 3.

The scene of the stabbing near Damascus Gate, November 29, 2015.Emil Salman
The second attack took place just after 10 A.M. on Shamgar Street, near a
grocery store. Zev Sofer of United Hatzalah said that the woman, a foreigner
living in Israel, was stabbed near a bus on the street. He said she then got on a
bus and was given first aid.
According to Jerusalem police, the woman was walking on Shamgar Street when
the Palestinian assailant came up behind her, stabbed her in the back and fled.
She was transferred with light wounds to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in
Jerusalem.
Hisorai Taplaya told Ynet that she had "crossed the street and found a bus
driver," after being stabbed in the back. "He helped me, put a towel on my wound
and called an ambulance."
At first, she said, she didnt understand that she had become the victim of a
terror attack, "But I understood that it was a terror attack because I have
been listening to the news lately."
She expressed his gratiture to the bus driver who helped her, saying, "I was
scared recently because of what has been going on."
On Friday, seven Israeli soldiers were wounded in two separate car-ramming
attacks in the West Bank.
Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, Palestinian protesters and Israeli security
forces clashed across the West Bank and near the Gaza border.
Nir Hasson
Haaretz Correspondent
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