08:37: Authorities are now reporting that it appears the stabbing incident in the Beis Yisrael area of Yerushalayim, near Mir Yeshiva, was not a terror attack but the result of a dispute. The injured man is not Jewish, but a foreign worker.
The victim told police his attacker was an Arab male. According to a police spokesman, the search for the attacker continues. It appears a final determination regarding the motive for the attack has not yet been made.
08:48: Final Update: Police are stating without a doubt that the stabbing incident was not terror related.
END of summation.
08:03: Emergency agencies are responding to a reported stabbing attack in the Beis Yisrael neighborhood of Yerushalayim, near the Mir Yeshiva. Additional information to follow.
08:10: One person was lightly wounded in this attack. He walked into Nechama Bakery, up the block from Mir, asking for assistance. Ichud Hatzalah reports the victim is being treated on the scene. The attacker fled.
Police are investigating. While it is believed the attack was a terrorist stabbing, police are probing other possible motives at this time.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Please change the headline, so parents won’t be sending their children learning in the Mir home tonight.
It might B”H not have been a terrorist attack, but it does mean yet an another Arab walking around with a knife!