An 85-year-old Israeli man was killed, and a 20-year-old soldier was wounded in a terror ramming, stabbing, and shooting attack that occurred at HaTishbi Junction on Route 66 near Yokne’am on Monday, police and Israel’s emergency response service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported.
MDA paramedics initially provided medical treatment to Moshe ‘Musa’ Horn, 85, from Kibbutz Hazorea, however he was pronounced dead at the scene. His 51-year-old son was with him in the vehicle, and, according to the Israeli media, attempted to thwart the terrorist with his own personal weapon.
According to a statement from the kibbutz, Horn was a father of four and grandfather of ten, and a “one of the pillars of Kibbutz Hazorea.”
The military later said the wounded 20-year-old man is an IDF soldier, and that he was evacuated to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa in serious condition where he remains on a ventilator.
Israel Police Commissioner Danny Levy said the terrorist, an Israeli Arab, accelerated and crashed his vehicle into pedestrians at a bus stop, after which he exited the vehicle with a knife and stabbed a soldier who was at the stop. The terrorist then took the soldier’s weapon and opened fire on civilians and vehicles.
The terrorist was thwarted by police. According to Israeli media, police officers were passing by the scene on their way to unit training when they noticed a terrorist armed with a weapon firing at civilians.
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The terrorist was later named as Karem Jabarin, 25, from the village of Ma’ale Irron near Jenin.
Commissioner Levy added: “We are in the midst of the month of Ramadan and are deployed together with all security forces in all sectors in order to maintain the safety of the residents of the State of Israel.”
Paramedics arrive at the scene
MDA paramedic Ofer Vinik recounted what he saw upon arrival at the scene. “We arrived at the location and saw a male around 70 years old and a male around 20 near the bus stop, both suffering from penetrating wounds. We performed medical examinations on the 70-year-old male, but he had no pulse and was not breathing, and unfortunately, we had to pronounce him dead at the scene.
“Additional MDA teams provided medical treatment to the 20-year-old, who was conscious, and urgently evacuated him in an MDA mobile intensive care unit to the hospital in a serious and unstable condition.”
The Border Guard officer who thwarted the terrorist told KAN’s Reshet B: “Anyone who wasn’t there at the time cannot understand what I experienced at that moment. I was sitting in a car, a civilian said there was a terrorist in the area. We got out and eliminated the terrorist, we prevented a major attack.”
This is a developing story.
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