{"id":310835,"date":"2017-04-14T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310835"},"modified":"2017-04-14T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T18:10:40","slug":"jerusalem-stabbing-british-woman-killed-in-tram-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310835","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem stabbing: British woman killed in tram attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">A British woman has been stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>She has been named as student Hannah Bladon by Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Bladon was stabbed several times in the chest while she travelled on a tram in Tzahal Square, packed with pilgrims visiting for Passover and Easter, and died in hospital soon after.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities identified 57-year-old Palestinian Gamil Tamimi as her attacker. He was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Mr Tamimi, a resident of Ras al-Amud in east Jerusalem, was recently released from a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevy told the AFP news agency that the man was &#8220;very mentally disturbed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__crosshead\"><strong>&#8216;Filled with sadness&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The agency said authorities had said an off-duty policeman travelling on the tram triggered the emergency stop and overpowered the attacker with the help of another passenger.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old pregnant woman and a 50-year-old man were also injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman said the pair, who were much less seriously injured than the British woman, were either hurt when the tram came to a sudden stop or in the panic to get away.<\/p>\n<p>A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: &#8220;We are in touch with local authorities following an incident in Jerusalem on April 14.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/00EA\/production\/_95643200_hi038993101.jpg\" alt=\"Police at the scene of the attack in Jerusalem\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/>Police cordoned off the road leading to scene of the attack near the Old City<\/span><\/figure>\n<p>There will continue to be heightened security in Jerusalem after measures were brought in ahead of the Jewish Passover Festival and Easter celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s President Reuven Rivlin said he was &#8220;filled with sadness about the attack&#8221; and his thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld has confirmed the Briton was a 23-year-old and tweeted a picture of the knife used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British woman has been stabbed to death on a tram in Jerusalem. She has been named as student Hannah Bladon by Israel&#8217;s ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev. Ms Bladon was stabbed several times in the chest while she travelled on a tram in Tzahal Square, packed with pilgrims visiting for Passover and Easter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}