Baruch Dayan Emmes: 21-year-old Hadar Buchris HY”D was the Israeli murdered in the latest Islamic terror attack at Gush Etzion Junction. She sustained serious stab wounds while standing at the junction before security forces shot and killed the terrorist, a 31-year-old PA (Palestinian Authority) resident from el-Fajar in the Hebron district. She was waiting for a ride from the Gush Etzion district towards Kiryat Arba when she was attacked.

Buchris was transported to the trauma unit of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem is critical/unstable condition, having lost significant blood volume due to the severity of the stab wounds to her upper body.

The announcement of the latest attack at that particular junction comes as the parents of Ezra Schwartz HY”D prepare for the levaya of their son, who was murdered at the junction last Thursday, 7 Kislev. A levaya was held for him at Ben-Gurion Airport on motzei Shabbos and kvura in Maryland is set for Sunday.

Two others were murdered in that attack including Alon Shvut resident Yaakov Don HY”D and an Arab man. Earlier on Thursday, Aharon Yisayev HY”D and Reuven Viram HY”D were murdered in another Islamic terror attack in Tel Aviv, in the Panorama Building in the southern area of the city. That fatal attack occurred 2.5 hours earlier.

The attack that claimed Hadar’s life was the third today, 10 Kislev. Earlier there were attacks at Chativat Shomron Junction and Kfar Adumim Junction near Maale Adumim.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)