Stabbing attack occurred with victim’s kids, pregnant wife in car, family says

The victim of a West Bank stabbing attack was a career soldier on his way to Tiberias for a family vacation when he was assaulted, his brothers tell the media.

Elhanan Hananya suffered a broken shoulder and internal bleeding, his brothers Yosef and Shlomo Hananaya say at a press conference at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

The attack occurred in front of his pregnant wife, their two daughters and his father-in-law, who were in the car when he stopped in Al-Auja for cigarettes.

“When he came back to the car, there was a terrorist there who ambushed him,” one of the brothers says. “When he saw my brother’s back was turned, he jumped on him and stabbed him several times. He fought him and was in a panic over the kids… the bigger daughter saw everything that happened.”