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Israeli Woman Stabbed in Suspected Terror Attack

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JERUSALEM, Israel – An Israeli woman was stabbed on Wednesday near the entrance of the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem, police said.

Israel’s EMS service took the 26-year-old woman to the nearby Hadassash Mt. Scopus hospital where she is in stable condition.

Police later arrested the suspect, a Palestinian teenage girl inside a school. They say the suspect stabbed the woman in the back and fled the scene.

“There is a suspicion that this was a terror attack. We are in a period in which we have seen a series of incidents like this in the Jerusalem area,” a police spokesperson told Army Radio shortly after the attack.

The stabbing is the latest attack in Jerusalem. On Sunday, a Palestinian man stabbed a man just outside of Jerusalem’s Old City before being shot dead by police. Last month, a Hamas terrorist opened fire in the Old City, killing one Israeli and injuring four others.

The Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood is the center of an ongoing legal fight over homes that several Palestinian families have lived in for decades, but Jewish groups claim belong to them. Israel characterizes the court battle as a real estate dispute. Palestinians view it as evidence of a larger effort by Israel to strip them of property rights.

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Emily
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Emily Jones is a multi-media journalist for CBN News in Jerusalem. Before she moved to the Middle East in 2019, she spent years regularly traveling to the region to study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, meet with government officials, and raise awareness about Christian persecution. During her college years, Emily served as president of Regent University's Christians United for Israel chapter and spoke alongside world leaders at numerous conferences and events. She is an active member of the Philos Project, an organization that seeks to promote positive Christian engagement with the Middle