Stabbings

A record number of Londoners fled the capital in 2018, new internal migration figures reveal, with an economist blaming the exodus on violent crime and the cost of living.

A 14-year-old boy was stabbed repeatedly, including in the back and the head, according to witnesses, in south London in broad daylight.

As knife crime continues to be a major issue in Germany, one German women’s magazine has written an article on the treatment of stab wounds in its “health and fitness” section.

A man has been charged with five counts of attempted murder following a spate of stabbings in the Edmonton area of north London during the last week.

Children in high knife-crime areas are being taught how to deliver first aid to stab victims, details of the programme emerging less than a week after two teenagers were stabbed to death in separate attacks and a knife gang entered school grounds and threatened pupils.

Homicides in England and Wales are at their highest rate for decade, as official statistics reveal a rise in fatal stabbings, with largest increases in the numbers of young, male, and black victims.

Seven people have been arrested and three others rushed to hospital with stab wounds after a brawl broke out at a tram stop in Croydon, south London.

Official crime figures have revealed a 14 percent jump in the number of homicides recorded in England and Wales, with knife offences hitting the highest level in eight years.

One in five adults in England and Wales experienced crime last year whilst London has hit its highest ever level of knife crime, according to statistics.

As Mayor Sadiq Khan’s popularity plunged this week amidst an epidemic of violence in the capital, new figures from London’s Air Ambulance revealed gun and knife casualties now make up the largest share of emergencies.

A 37-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly at a Grime music awards ceremony at the Hammersmith Apollo theatre, west London.

Police have launched a murder investigation after a teenager was fatally stabbed while riding on a moped in Camberwell, London.

A 34-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed in broad daylight in a residential area of south-east London.

A 17-year-old girl has been stabbed to death in broad daylight on Thursday in South London.

A senior Metropolitan Police officer has said that the weapons used in stabbings have got bigger, the injuries worse, and the attacks more “feral” in the past five years as London’s violent crime spree continues.

Paramedics in the West Midlands are dealing with 30 stabbing and shooting attacks a week, it has emerged in data published days after police came under fire for its slow response to a crazed machete attacker in Birmingham city centre.

An 18-year-old male has suffered possibly “life-changing” injuries after being attacked with a knuckleduster and sprayed with a noxious substance and two males, including a 15-year-old boy, were stabbed over the weekend in London.

From the Guardian: Four young men have been stabbed to death in unrelated attacks in the space of 15 hours in London, Scotland Yard said. The killings – three on New Year’s Eve and a fourth in the early hours

TEL AVIV – The Israeli defense establishment is concerned with the deteriorating health of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following another spate in hospital last week, an analysis in the Haaretz daily said.

TEL AVIV – A new video released Monday shows the moment an Israeli pizzeria owner smashed a Palestinian terrorist over the head with a pizza tray during a stabbing attack in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva last week.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his decision to remove metal detectors from the entrance to the Temple Mount following Muslim unrest over the matter, saying it was not an easy decision but that it was in the best interests of national security.

TEL AVIV – Arab media from all over the world celebrated the removal of security measures at the Temple Mount and the subsequent return of Muslim pilgrims to the holy site by publishing cartoons poking fun at Israel for capitulating and saying the Jewish state acted out of fear.

TEL AVIV – A overwhelming majority of Israelis (77%) believe that the government’s decision to remove metal detectors at the Temple Mount following rioting by Muslims signified capitulation on Israel’s part, according to a poll commissioned by Israel’s Channel 2.

TEL AVIV – Violent clashes with Israeli security forces erupted as thousands of Palestinian Muslims returned on Thursday to the Temple Mount for afternoon prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque in celebration of Israel’s removal of all security measures installed at the site since a terror attack there saw two Israeli-Druze policemen murdered by three Arab gunmen two weeks ago.

TEL AVIV – Hundreds of residents from the community of Halamish gathered Sunday to begin construction of a new West Bank outpost as a response to Friday night’s Palestinian terror attack in the town which claimed the lives of three family members.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ ruling Fatah party on Saturday called for a campaign “to take control of the Al-Aqsa mosque.”

TEL AVIV – Border police officers arrested a Palestinian man at a West Bank checkpoint on Monday on suspicion of intent to carry out a terror attack while President Donald Trump was visiting state Israel, police said.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian knifeman attempted to stab Israeli border police officers at the Abu Dis checkpoint near Maale Adumim Tuesday afternoon, two miles away from where President Donald Trump was visiting Jerusalem.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian man who stabbed a British student to death in Jerusalem on Friday was declared fit to stand trial, a psychiatrist from the State Prosecutor’s Office said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Israel condemned the ramming and knife attack in London on Wednesday, offering solidarity with the British people and condolences to the families of the victims.