Eyewitness shares 'scary' first-hand account of Golders Green stabbing attack with GB News

Georgia Pearce
Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:05:58 +0000

An eyewitness has told GB News of the "scary" horror he witnessed in Golders Green after two Jewish people were stabbed.

Speaking to the People's Channel following the incident, business owner Ben Bendahan recalled seeing the second victim just metres from his shop.

Describing what happened, Mr Bendahan told GB News that he and his wife "saw the perpetrator running towards the street" where the second victim was attacked.

He said: "My shop is right across the road from the second stabbing, and me and my wife saw the perpetrator running towards the street where he stabbed the guy, and we saw the police running after him.

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"And basically, after that, everything was sort of blocked off by police cars, and we didn't see a crazy amount, but we saw what went down in those few seconds. Everything was quite fast."

After speaking to other people in the community, Mr Bendahan said that they found the incident "scary" and there is "a lot of tension" amongst locals.

He told GB News: "It's definitely scary, and this is the second time something like this has happened in the past few weeks in this particular area. It's, again, not the first time my shop has been blocked off by police state.

"There's definitely a lot of tension in the community and difficult to see such an amazing community just being brought to its knees because of some crazy man."

Mr Bendahan despaired at the "unsettling" situation the Jewish community is facing in Golders Green.

He said: "This is obviously not the only area where things like this happen, but this is obviously targeted towards what we are as a people, and it is unsettling.

"We don't know if I'm walking down the street or if I'm at my work or wherever it is that some crazy guy might come in and stab me, or someone might burn down the ambulance down the road for me or whatever it may be."

The business owner admitted that some in the community are considering "calling it a day" on the UK and moving to Israel, where they believe they will be safer than in London.

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He told GB News: "There's definitely a lot of talk about people going to Israel, just moving there and calling it a day.

"At the end of the day, when you're walking on the street in Israel – and as someone who goes to Israel quite a lot – you feel relatively safe. There isn't that impending doom that a rocket is going to fall on your head, especially in Jerusalem and other cities where they don't get affected as much by rockets.

"And thank God that Israel's defence system is very good, so the casualties are much lower. With all those rockets and all the stuff that Iran and Hamas and Hezbollah have been sending down in the past couple months, obviously there have been casualties.

"But if you look at it proportionally, I think people are better off taking their chances over there than over here, where I could literally be walking down the road and someone's going to come up to me and stab me."

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer told MPs in the Commons the incident in Golders Green was "deeply concerning".

He said: "There is now a police investigation, and I think we all need to do everything we can to support that investigation and be absolutely clear in our determination to deal with any of these offences, the like of which we have seen too much recently."

Jewish neighbourhood watch group Shomrim said in a statement: "One male was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.

"Shomrim responded immediately and detained the suspect. Police attended and deployed a taser. The male has now been arrested. Two victims have been stabbed and are being treated by Hatzola."