A Jewish Israeli woman was stabbed and wounded Saturday evening in the Bedouin town of Rahat, in southern Israel. She sustained moderate injuries to her neck and was hospitalized for treatment, where her condition was later defined as lightly injured.
Security forces were treating the stabbing as a terror attack. The attack occurred as the woman, Shlomit Ganon, 65, a grandmother from nearby Kibbutz Mishmar Hanegev, was shopping with family members in the town’s open market.
Eyewitnesses said an Arab youth of about 20 years of age stabbed her before fleeing the scene. Large numbers of security forces were searching for the assailant, and set up roadblocks in the area.
Channel 2 said that the assailant was most likely a Palestinian in Israel illegally.
Local Rahat politicians condemned the killing, and urged the security forces to catch the terrorist as soon as possible.
An eyewitness to the attack identified only as Salam told Army Radio that “a youth in a red shirt and hat stabbed the woman and ran out of the market. The police arrived within 10 minutes and ambulances came even sooner.”
A Magen David Adom paramedic who treated the wounded woman said that she was fully conscious. “We placed her in the [ambulance] and administered first aid treatment en route to the hospital,” he said. The victim was taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva.
{Matzav.com}
Mr. Blind k’moon will condemn the grandmother’s parents for marrying and having her as their child thus bringing upon her this horrible act. It’s Israel’s fault!