The Jerusalem district attorney submitted this morning to the district court in the city an indictment against terrorist Jamil Tamimi, 57, a resident of the Ras Al-Amud neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem, for the murder of Hannah Bladon on the Jerusalem light rail in April.
According to the indictment, Tamimi obtained a kitchen knife with a wide blade in the middle of April. He called his sons, Taiseer and Omer, talked with each one separately, and asked if he could stay at their houses, but they refused and told him to return to the Kfar Shaul mental health center [in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem] from where he had been released a day before.”
“Subsequently, as anger burned inside him, he decided to stab someone to death with a knife. The accused decided to get on the light rail in Jerusalem and carry out his intention.”
“The accused stabbed to death with 7 stabbings Hannah Bladon, a 20-year-old British citizen, who was traveling at that time on the train, whom he identified as a weak target who would not be able to resist against his actions.”
“The accused did not stop his actions until those on the train maintained control over him, threw him on the ground, and the knife flew from his hands,” the indictment read.
Bladon was a theology student at the University of Birmingham who began studying at Jerusalem's Hebrew University in January. She had been scheduled to complete the exchange program in September at the time of her murder.