A 16-year-old Israeli who stabbed Palestinian Jamil Abdullah, 42, in occupied Jerusalem on Thursday may have also carried out a series of attacks against Arabs and Palestinians, the Israeli police said Friday during a remand hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.
 
The Jerusalem Police believe that Thursday's stabbing incident was “nationalistically motivated.” The police told the court that the culprit had attacked Arabs and Palestinians near the Tomb of Simeon the Just in east Jerusalem, near the settlement of Carmel and near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar.
 
Abdullah, 42, the father of five from the village of Shoafat in the Jerusalem area, was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with abdomen wounds.
Abdullah was stabbed while waiting for a bus. "It was very quick," he told Ynet. "I was sitting in the bus station, and two minutes later someone came from behind, stabbed me and escaped."
 
He said he was not alone when he was stabbed. "There was another old man sitting there. Before I was stabbed I managed to ask him which buses had already passed. When I told him I was stabbed, he just looked at me and didn't say a thing. Then a bus arrived and he just got on it and left."
"I am not a judge and not a police officer, but I hope he gets the same punishment an Arab would get for stabbing a Jews. Of course I'm angry, but it's basically a person's luck, being stabbed in the left side of the stomach and staying alive. Thank God."
 
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