Palestinian Stabs Female Israeli Soldier in East Jerusalem
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A young female Israeli soldier was in moderate condition on Thursday after being stabbed by a Palestinian on a section of Jerusalem's light railway in the city's annexed Arab east sector, police said.
The attack was the first such incident on the light rail system, which began operating throughout the city in August last year.
Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the woman "was stabbed by a man suspected of being a Palestinian in Pisgat Zeev, apparently on board the light rail. The doors of the train then opened, and the stabber fled the scene."
Shortly afterwards, police confirmed the suspect was a Palestinian, saying he had been arrested at the Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah.
A paramedic who treated the 19-year-old uniformed soldier told public radio the victim was stabbed in the chest and the arm, and evacuated to hospital in serious condition.
A spokeswoman for the Shaare Zedek hospital told Agence France Presse that the woman was currently in moderate condition.
"She is currently anaesthetized, and we are evaluating her condition to determine how to proceed with treatment," Shoham Ruvio said.
Israeli army spokeswoman Avital Leibovich confirmed the woman was a soldier in a posting on Twitter, saying: "A female soldier was wounded due to stabbing attack in Jerusalem."
There was no immediate indication of the attacker's motives.
Israel's first light rail system began operating in August after many delays.
The 14-kilometer (nine-mile) line begins at Mount Herzl, passes through west Jerusalem's main artery and skirts the Old City, before heading through east Jerusalem and ending at the settlement neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev.
15 March 2012, 14:40
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Well the nation who made it an art from stabbing people in their backs are the Palestinian.
Not only by knife, they became experts of targeting civilian at their schools, buses, restaurants, hotels, in the street and in coffee shops.
Even their own people they know how to kill, either from throwing them down from high floors, or hanging them or just shooting them blaming for collaboration.
They will not deserve to get their own state even in 1000 of years.
Cowards will remain cowards and even they will hang keys of their houses on their neck for hundreds of years more there will be no house to go back.
They can blame all the world for their misery but those who murdered sports men in the Olympic games or blew up civil airplanes shooting passengers, or planting explosives to kill women and children will get nothing.
15 March 2012, 19:21
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Mowaten:
He is a criminal as he stabbed a women, not in the battle field but in a train station. not in an act of war but in a criminal act.
Don't try to glorify as this is plain crime.
We have much to learn from your nation how to murder as you do it much better than us. we can see it now in Syria and we see it in Iraq.
We did not blow up the Budhaa statues in Afganistan.
With all bitterness ask the Palestinian and local Arabs under whose government they will prefer to live, you might be surprised to find that 78 pct of Israeli Arabs will remain under Israel's control as they get much more democracy than in all Arabian countries around us.
It will be hard for you to admit but we what you think of Israel you wouldn't have dared to say against Hezballa or Bashar as they would have hanged you on nearest tree.
15 March 2012, 16:11
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Ah ya Batal. All you could do is stab a woman in the back? Oh I forgot, that is what Palestinians are specialized in. Stabbing people in the back. What a bunch of cowards.
