A 26-year-old Israeli woman was hospitalized Wednesday morning after she was stabbed near the grave of Shimon HaTzadik (Simeon the Just) while walking her children to school in the Shimon HaTzadik/Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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The children were physically unharmed and were being supervised by police at the scene after their mother was taken to the hospital.

Magen David Adom paramedics who arrived on the scene found the woman in serious condition, provided her with life-saving treatment, and took her to Hadassah Mount Scopus Medical Center. After arriving at the hospital, her condition stabilized and her wounds were listed as minor.

Moshe Cordoba and Dudi Gur, the paramedics who responded, said that when they arrived, the woman was fully conscious and ambulatory.

"We rushed her to the hospital in serious but stable condition. She was able to communicate with us on the way. The children weren't hurt and stayed with police at the scene," the paramedics said.

Police swept the area after a young woman was reported fleeing the scene of the attack and within an hour arrested a 15-year-old Palestinian girl.

This is the third terrorist attack in the space of three days, after a young man was stabbed near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Saturday night, and a 16-year-old Palestinian carried out a car-ramming attack at Te'enim checkpoint on Monday, wounding a security guard.

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Jordan on Tuesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for a 2019 stabbing attack at a popular tourist site that wounded eight people, including foreign tourists and their guide.

A state security court found the man guilty. It sentenced another man to life in prison and a third to seven years for allegedly aiding in the attack at the Roman ruins of Jerash, the state-run Petra news agency said.

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The family of the suspect, who was subdued and apprehended immediately after the attack, identified him at the time as Mustafa Abu Tuameh, a 22-year-old resident of a nearby Palestinian refugee camp. They said he was very poor and had recently become more religious but was not affiliated with any armed group.

His lawyer, Mekhled Dwaikat, said he would appeal Tuesday's verdict.

The attack in Jerash, some 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of the capital, Amman, cast a shadow on Jordan's vital tourism industry, which over the past year has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic.

The wounded included three Mexican tourists and a Swiss woman. Along with the tour guide, three other Jordanians, including two security officers and a bus driver, were also hurt before the attacker was subdued and arrested.

Amateur video showed a bloody scene next to the Jerash archaeological site, an ancient city whose ruins include a Roman amphitheater and a columned road.

Muslim extremists have targeted tourist sites in Jordan in the past, in part to undermine its Western-allied monarchy. In 2005, triple hotel attacks killed at least 23 people, while the following year a British tourist was killed when a gunman opened fire at Roman ruins in Amman.

More recently, a 2016 attack by the Islamic State group killed 14 people, including a Canadian tourist.

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The suspect fled the scene of the attempted attack and led police and Border Police on a chase through the alleyways of the Old City.

Additional forces were scrambled to the scene of the would-be stabbing and cordoned the area off. Security has been bolstered at and around Herod's Gate.

Parts of this article were originally published by i24NEWS.

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