2 Young Teen Israeli Arab Girls Stab Security Guard
A Rose by any Other Name: The plaza to the left is the Kotel, the western retaining wall for the Temple. The Dome of the Rock (gold dome) and the Al-Aqsa Mosque (black dome) now sit atop Haram al-Sharif.
JERUSALEM — Two Arab-Israeli teenage girls stabbed a security guard near the Ramle central bus station, police said.
Initial news reports called the attack nationally motivated. The teens reportedly said during questioning that they carried out the attack as “revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”
The girls, 13, reportedly pulled kitchen knives out of a school backpack and began stabbing the guard, 27, when he asked them for identification. He was taken to a nearby hospital with stab wounds in his hand and leg.
A soldier and a civilian reportedly subdued the teens and held them until police arrived to arrest them and take them for questioning.
Ramle is a mixed Arab-Jewish city in central Israel. The teens reportedly are from Jawarish, an Arab-Israeli village located about three miles southwest of Ramle.
Ramle Mayor Yoel Lavi called the attack “uncharacteristic of the Arab sector in Ramle,” Ynet reported. He added: “Ramle is a multicultural city in which people live in coexistence and in good neighborly relations, Jews alongside Arabs.”
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