Two Israeli men, both in their 20s, were stabbed in an apparent terrorist attack Monday near a train stop on Jerusalem’s Rekevet light rail system.
“When we arrived at the scene, we saw two victims, [both] conscious, with stab wounds to their upper bodies,” said Magen David Adom paramedic Sigalit Mizrachi.
Photos from the scene showed the knife still lodged in one victim’s back with a police medic applying pressure to the area around the wound to slow bleeding, but refraining from removing the knife until the victim was in a hospital setting to prevent massive blood loss.
One of the men, an IDF soldier, was listed in serious condition after being treated by Magen David Adom paramedics and EMTs and evacuated by an MDA Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulance to Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. A second man, a civilian, was moderately injured and also taken by MDA to Mount Scopus.
It was the first such attack since the ceasefire early Friday morning between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas that ended 11 days of rocket attacks on Israeli cities and reprisal air strikes by the IDF.
Despite the terror attack, the ceasefire between the two sides has held.
