Two 14-year-old Palestinians enter a Rami Levi supermarket and stab two Israelis. 21-year-old Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman died of his wounds.

Two 14-year-old Palestinians carried out a stabbing attack Thursday afternoon in the Sha’ar Binyamin Industrial Zone north of Jerusalem. 21-year-old Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman was killed and a 36-year-old Israeli man was moderately wounded.

The two Palestinain youths entered a Rami Levi supermarket and stabbed two Israelis. Shoppers there pushed the terrorists back with wagons. A citizen at the scene then shot them, seriously wounding them and preventing a more serious attack.

Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, killed in attack
Sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, killed in attack

 

Weismann, a resident of Ma’ale Mikhmas in the Binyamin region of the West Bank, was married and was the father of a 4-month-old baby. He was a soldier in the 50th Battalion of the Nahal Brigade. When he was murdered he was wearing civilian clothes. He leaves behind his parents and three brothers.

Witnesses say that the terrorists were hanging around the area for about 40 minutes prior to attacking. The attackers, Umar Rimawi and Iham Sabah are from Beitunia near Ramallah.

One of the wounded being treated at the scene of the attack (Photo: Uziel Vatik)
One of the wounded being treated at the scene of the attack (Photo: Uziel Vatik)

 

The citizen who shot the terrorists recounted that he “entered the store and heard screams. I spotted one of the terrorists and shot him. There were soldiers and citizens there.”

The 36-year-old was sent to Hadassa Medical Center and Weissman was sent to Shaare Tsedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, where he died of his wounds. He was married and a father of a baby.

As reported by Ynetnews