{"id":253014,"date":"2026-08-17T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253014\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:30:11","slug":"israeli-child-killed-after-suspected-beit-shemesh-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/253014\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli child killed after suspected Beit Shemesh stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A seven-year-old Israeli child was killed, and his four-year-old cousin was critically injured in a suspected stabbing<\/a> at a home in Beit Shemesh on Monday.<\/p>\n

Paramedics found the children suffering from stab wounds in the family’s pool after emergency services received a report of the incident.<\/p>\n

Israeli media reports indicated the children were allegedly attacked by a mentally unstable individual who reportedly entered the home and assaulted them after the mother of one of the children left the home.<\/p>\n

According to Magen David Adom (MDA<\/a>), the two children were in critical condition and were rushed to Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem\u2019s Ein Kerem for further treatment.<\/p>\n

Israeli Police<\/a> later released a statement that they had opened an official investigation into the attack, and added that a suspect had been arrested following the assault.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

MDA paramedic, Yosef Haim Bernfeld, described the scene as horrifying, saying, \u201cWe were led to two children who had suffered serious injuries to their bodies, including seven-year-old boy who was unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing, and a four-year-old boy who was conscious.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of the incident, a 15-year-old relative was reportedly responsible for supervising the children at home, as their mother was not present.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old is now receiving assistance at the scene from a social worker.<\/a><\/p>\n

No further details on the incident have been provided at this stage.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A seven-year-old Israeli child was killed, and his four-year-old cousin was critically injured in a suspected stabbing at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[84,2281,1105,22686,37,5869,1103,9310],"class_list":["post-253014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-attack","tag-beit-shemesh","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-police","tag-stabbing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117111805310917257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}