Woman Killed in Jerusalem Stabbing Attack

The Fellowship  |  April 14, 2017

Terror struck the Holy City on Good Friday, leaving one dead and two injured. The Times of Israel’s Judah Ari Gross reports that a British woman is dead after a terrorist carried out a stabbing attack on a Jerusalem tram:

A young British woman was stabbed to death with a kitchen knife while riding on Jerusalem’s light rail on Friday, officials said. Police and passersby wrestled the terrorist, a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, to the ground before he could harm anyone else.

Two other people were lightly injured when the tram made an emergency stop.

Medics from the Magen David Adom ambulance service carried out CPR on the woman at the scene before taking her to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus for treatment. She was brought to the hospital in critical condition, with multiple stab wounds to the upper body, a medic said.

She died of her wounds shortly after arriving to the hospital, a Hadassah spokesperson said…