WATCH: IDF Officer Confronts Terrorist Who Stabbed Him: ‘His Verdict Is Hell’

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —IDF officer Capt. (Res.) Meni Kalcheim was moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on Sunday at a Binyamin Region gas station. A terrorist attacked him from behind as he was leaving the convenience store and stabbed him in the back.

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Surveillance camera footage of the terrorist attack Sunday

Kalcheim succeeded in shooting at the terrorist and wounding him. The terrorist was caught by IDF forces after a short chase. Kalcheim was released later in the evening from Sheba Medical Center after undergoing treatment and met up with the forces who were holding the terrorist who assaulted him.

Kalcheim confronted the terrorist and told him: “Whoever lifts a hand on a Jew will not have a life. His verdict is hell. This land is ours, and we will continue living here. Whoever wants to die, go somewhere else.”

קצין המילואים מני קלכהיים למחבל שדקר אותו בפיגוע היום: “מי שמרים יד על יהודי – לא יהיו לו חיים, הדין שלו בגיהנום”@carmeldangor https://t.co/i2gySYIq1d pic.twitter.com/ytXDQYYn6H

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On Sunday, the officer recalled the attack: “Today, on my way home to Ateret in Binyamin, returning from IDF activity with my reserve unit, I stopped at a convenience store at the Rantis gas station. When I was at the checkout, I felt a strong blow from behind and saw someone running from the store. I started chasing him and shot at him. Apparently, I wounded him.

He added, “Thank God that I was standing there, an officer in an IDF uniform with a long weapon who could respond. If somebody else had been there, the outcome might have been different.”