Stabbing Attack Near Jerusalem City Hall – Motive Unknown

Emergency personnel treated a man for a stab wound on Wednesday morning near�near the Jerusalem light rail, Kikar Safra, City Hall stop.

It was first believed to have been a knife attack, but the victims appears to have been attacked with a glass bottle.

Officials at Shaare Zedek Hospital report the victim of the stabbing, roughly 30 years of age is in light/stable condition.

The attacker was neutralized.

�When we arrived at the scene of the [stabbing] next to a light rail station,� said MDA paramedics Yisrael Weingarten and Yehonatan Meirsdorf, �we found a man roughly 30 years of age sitting on a chair, fully conscious, who was suffering from several stab wounds to the upper torso.�

�After he was given first aid, we loaded him into the mobile intensive care unit and evacuated him while continuing to treat his wounds, including stopping the bleeding, bandaging [the wounds], and providing liquids.”

Crime scene investigators are operating on the scene at this time. Currently, all possibilities remain open regarding the motive for the attack.