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A terrorist killed a 20-year-old Israeli Soldier at around 3:00PM on Monday at a gas station on Route 443, on the same day that a series of other attacks wounded several other Israelis.

A preliminary investigation showed that the Israeli man and woman had arrived at the gas station when the Palestinian terrorist tackled the driver as he exited the car. The terrorist stabbed and killed the man and lightly wounded the woman. An officer at the scene shot and killed the terrorist.

THE FOLLOWING WERE THE INITIAL REPORTS BY YWN:

15:08: A terrorist stabbed a female in the Dor Alon gas station on Highway 443, the Jerusalem-Modi’in Highway in the direction of Jerusalem.

15:12: The victim, apparently in her 20s, was gravely wounded and EMS personnel are performing CPR at the scene. Shots were fired at the terrorist. It was first reported he was neutralized but he may have fled the scene. This remains unclear at this time.

15:15: It is reported the attacker was undetected as he entered the gas station and then he jumped the victim, wounding her critically. Channel 2 News reports the terrorist was shot and wounded.

15:21: MDA Chief of Operations Eli Bin reports there are two victims at the scene, not one as reported earlier. One of the victims is in critical condition and resuscitation efforts continue by paramedics and a doctor. The second victim is in light-to-moderate condition.

15:22: A group of Israelis were standing at the gas station which is on the highway in the direction of the capital.

The attacker managed to move up on the group unnoticed, stabbing one person in the back and then a second in a hand. Members of the group with weapons fired at the attacker.

As a result of the attack, Highway 443 is closed in both directions in the Beit Horon area.

15:28: Ichud Hatzalah ambucycle EMT Michel Chai reports “When I arrived on the scene I saw a male on the ground who was stabbed in his upper body. He was unconscious. We began CPR immediately. There was also a second victim, a female, who was stabbed in her upper body, in light condition”.

15:31: A vehicle just arrived at the Maccabim Junction, which is a few minutes west of the gas station. A person in the vehicle was wounded by gunfire and it may be connected to the ongoing incident in the gas station, possibly the gunfire directed at the terrorist.

15:32: The gravely wounded male has been pronounced dead on the scene. The second stabbing victim is reported in stable condition. a third victim, a woman, was hit in her upper body, apparently from gunfire directed at the terrorist as she drove by. This is the vehicle that arrived at the nearby Maccabim Checkpoint with an occupant wounded by gunfire.

15:36: The woman wounded by gunfire in a passing car was hit in a hand and continued driving until reaching the Maccabim Checkpoint. She is in stable condition.

15:45: The person killed in the attack is and IDF soldier HY”D.

15:46: This latest attack takes place during the Jerusalem levaya of Hadar Buchris HY”D, the 21-year-old Bat Ayin Midrasha student murdered in the terror attack on Sunday at Gush Etzion Junction.

15:47: MDA update on the two wounded women. One was wounded lightly in a hand and is being treated in Shaare Zedek Hospital. The second female is also described in stable condition at Shaare Zedek.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos: Medabrim Tikshoret)