A Jewish man from Ashkelon, 57, was stabbed in the Arab city of Ad-Dhahiriya in Har Chevron on Shabbos and was moderately wounded.

The man had entered the city together with two Israeli-Bedouin friends to see a dentist at the clinic in the city. A 19-year-old Arab identified him as a Jew and stabbed him in the stomach several times. In response, one of the Jew’s Bedouin friends hit the assailant with a stick on his head and injured him.

His friends drove him to the IDF checkpoint at the Meitar crossing where he received emergency medical treatment.

An MDA paramedic said: “We arrived at the Meitar checkpoint and saw an Israeli car with a 57-year-old man inside, fully conscious with stab wounds. We were told that he was injured while he was in a store in Ad-Dhahiriya and another Israeli citizen who was there put him in a car and brought him to the checkpoint. He suffered from a number of stab wounds. We provided life-saving medical treatment, stopped the bleeding and evacuated him to the hospital, where his condition is moderate and stable.”

The IDF opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)