Video of Adam attack shows victim trying to overpower terrorist
Security cameras near the scene of the stabbing capture the terrorist stabbing Yotam Ovadia, while he confronts the terrorist and tries to escape; The video also shows another victim trying to overpower the terrorist while being stabbed, and the terrorist leaving the scene as police arrive.
A security camera near the scene of the stabbing attack last Thursday in Adam documented the confrontation between the late Yotam Ovadia and the 17-year-old terrorist Mohammad Tareq Yousef .
The video captures Ovadia jumping over the terrorist and trying to escape. The terrorist is then seen stabbing another man and tying to leave the scene of the crime before getting shot.
The terrorist chased after Ovadia, confronted him and stabbed him several times until he noticed another person, stopped, chased after the second man and stabbed him as well. The video shows the terrorist slowly trying to leave as the police vehicle arrives at the scene.
At the request of the family, the full video was not published.
Ovadia is seen trying to jump at the terrorist several times in an attempt to subdue him. At one point, Ovadia climbed a stone fence to escape the terrorist, but the terrorist followed him and continued stabbing him.
Shortly thereafter, the terrorist noticed another person and began chasing him. At the same time, Ovadia is seen leaving the scene wounded and bleeding.
The terrorist stabbed his second victim several times, until knocking him down. The wounded man tried to resist and overpower the terrorist by kicking him.
Mohammad Tareq Yousef, from Kobar, infiltrated the settlement on Thursday at 8:50pm. He went through the fence, passed through the settlement's playground and stabbed two passersby.
Yotam Ovadia was critically injured and evacuated to a nearby hospital where doctors pronounced his death.
A second victim, 58, suffered moderate injuries.
Assaf Ravid,41, who was lightly wounded after a brief scuffle with the terrorist before shooting him dead, recalled the incident, saying “I realized it was either me or him.”
Speaking a day after her husband was buried in Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem, Tal Ovadia, Yotam's widow and a mother of two, said that she does not know what to "now as far as my children are concerned…I don’t know how to continue and to be strong for the children. We were everything to him. The home was his kingdom.”
“Everything he did was for us. He always made sure that things were good. He always put himself last,” she said.
Tal mentioned that on the day of his death, Yotam came home from work with a bunch of flowers and chocolates to celebrate Tu B'Av.
“We took a photo together and he was happy. After I put the children to sleep he went out to get the groceries from his parents but never got there,” she added.
“Everything I wanted or asked for he did and he loved me in a way that doesn't exist,” Tal repeated. “He fulfilled my every dream. I would always say to him: ‘You are the one, my one and only special one.’"
“While I was getting ready to leave my home, I was giving instruction to the forces who arrived at the scene,” supt. Ovadia said.
“At this point I had not yet spoken to my cousins. As I was approaching the community I realized it happened on the street where my cousins live—Avraham and Karmella—Yotam’s parents who live a few houses away from them, but I didn’t want to believe it,” he added.
“I arrived at the scene and immediately one of the neighbors said to me that Yotam was the wounded man. It was a shock. Total shock. I almost exploded inside and my stomach was torn,” said the policeman.
Ovadia continued to preside over the investigation, he said, while praying for Yotam’s welfare.
“On the one hand I have to maintain my composure and continued to manage the area. But the uncles already started calling me. It is a moment I don’t wish on anybody. I was in the field and had to work while at the same time pray for my beloved nephew,” Ovadia recalled.
Two hours later, Ovadia received the news that Yotam had succumbed to his wounds. “No one can digest the fact that Yotam is no longer with us. We hugged each other and since then we have been crying,” he said.
“I always thought I was immune from crying. When it’s your family your stomach turns over. You know that you are on the job and you can’t work on emotion, but inside it’s a storm. It was a difficult moment.”
