Revelers dance and singing through the streets of Jerusalem
throughout the holy city's annual gay pride parade were left shrieking in pain
and panic Thursday night, as associate degree anti-gay extremist lunged into a
bunch leading the March and injured six folks, Israeli police and witnesses
aforesaid.
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An ultra-Orthodox Jew
attacks people with a knife during a Gay Pride parade Thursday, July 30, 2015
in central Jerusalem, Israel. Israeli police said several people were stabbed.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned “as a most
serious incident” what was the worst attack in years on the event in Jerusalem,
a town wherever the non secular population is a lot of outstanding than in
different elements of Israel.
Marcher’s enumerations regarding 5,000 associate degreed
waving banners were heading down associate degree avenue once an ultra-Orthodox
man jumped into the gang and plunged a knife into a number of them, witnesses
aforesaid.
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Israeli Policewoman
giving first aid to a wounded man after he was attacked by an Israeli
extremist, during the Gay Pride march in Jerusalem, Israel, 30 July 2015. An
ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed four marchers in Jerusalem’s annual gay
parade and was arrested, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
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Police aforesaid the assailant, Yishai Schlissel, who was inactive at the scene for Thursday's attack, had been
discharged from jail simply 3 weeks past, once serving a sentence for stabbing
many folks at the parade in 2005.
A man with blood oozing from his back wandered around with a
dazed look before collapsing. Another man along with his shirt off conjointly
had blood dripping down his back. Medics quickly enclosed them each and applied
pressure to prevent the hemorrhage.
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People disarm an
Orthodox Jewish assailant after he stabbed and injured six participants at an
annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said
July 30, 2015.
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Six folks were wounded within the attack, 2 of them
seriously, Eli Bin of Israel's emergency service aforesaid.
The Gay Pride Parade was continuing as planned with party
music, Israeli flags and rainbow-clad marchers wending their method through
central Jerusalem's barred streets, below an important police presence.
The crowd's carefree cheers suddenly gave thanks to screams.
Panic ensued, and a bloody lady fell to the bottom, associate degree associated
lensman at the scene aforesaid.
Shocked revelers, some in tears, gathered on the walkway and
hugged and comfortable one another as ambulances and police on horses quickly
arrived.
Jerusalem police voice Asi Ahroni aforesaid there was a
"massive presence" of police securing the parade however
"unfortunately the person managed to tug out a knife and attack."
People celebrating their freedom and expressing their
identity were brutally injured. We tend to should not be deluded; a scarcity of
tolerance can lead U.S. to disaster. We tend to cannot enable such crimes, and
that we should condemn people who commit and support them," Rivlin
aforesaid
