Mohammad Nasser Tra'ayra, a Palestinian high school dropout age 17 of
Bani Naim infiltrated the Harsanina neighbourhood of the
Israeli settlement of
Kiryat Arba, entered a private home, and stabbed a Jewish girl, Hallel Yaffa Ariel (13) as she slept in her bed. Critically wounded, she was transported to
Shaare Zedek Medical Center in
Jerusalem where she died of her stabbing wounds. According to some reports, Tra'ayra stabbed two other settlement guards before he was shot dead. A hospital spokesman said one of the security personnel, 31 years old, had suffered from serious gunshot wounds, a detail, according to
Ma'an News Agency, missing in the army communiqué.
Victims Shuki Gilboa, a member of the volunteer neighborhood security association, responded after receiving an alert on his cell phone that the security perimeter had been breached. He was attacked by the perpetrator when he entered the 13-year-old victim's bedroom. The girl's father, Rabbi Amichai Ariel, then fired two shots at the perpetrator. One of the shots hit the attacker, the other hit Gilboa, who has permanently lost sight in one eye.
Perpetrator The attacker was Mohammad Tra'ayra from the town of
Bani Na'im. Tra'ayra had boasted on
Facebook his wishes to die as a martyr, and avenge his cousin, Yousef Walid Tra'ayra, who
rammed his car into an Israeli military vehicle on 14 March 2016, injuring three Israeli soldiers. A banner with pictures of Tra'ayra and the late
Yasser Arafat was hung outside a building in the West Bank village of Tra'ayra's family, and the family is eligible for $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for martyrs. ==Aftermath==