A young boy was killed, and another was injured in a stabbing in Beit Shemesh on Monday that was suspected by police to have been carried out by a neighbor of the family.

The two children, cousins aged 4 and 7, were attacked while their parents were out of the house, according to Hebrew media reports. The father of one of the boys reportedly found them in an inflatable swimming pool upon his return home, at around 4:40 p.m.

The pair were rushed to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, with the older boy in critical condition and the younger one in serious condition.

Shortly afterward, Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg said one of the boys had died of his wounds, and Hadassah Ein Kerem confirmed that the 7-year-old had been pronounced dead on arrival.

It said that the 4-year-old was undergoing surgery, and upgraded his condition from seriously to moderately injured.

“We arrived at a shocking scene,” a Magen David Adom paramedic recounted to the press after the incident. “There was a lot of commotion outside. They led us to two children, who suffered serious bodily injuries, including an unconscious 7-year-old boy,........

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