A Palestinian terrorist who stabbed two security guards in the West Bank earlier this week managed to grab a rifle during the attack but failed to fire it, video footage of the incident published on Thursday showed.

The two guards, who both suffered stabbing injuries during the attack at the entrance to the Mishor Adumim industrial area Sunday night, were able to wrest the gun from the terrorist’s hands before he could shoot at them with it. The footage shows the guards shooting the attacker, including after the rifle had been recovered; he later died of his injuries.

It was unclear from the footage, which has been edited and appears to be partially corrupted, how the terrorist managed to grab the rifle, which is seen slung around a female guard’s body as the clip begins.

The guard, Rotem Gabbay, told the Ynet news site that during the attack her glasses flew off, and at that point “he grabbed the rifle from me.”

In the footage, the two guards are seen leaving the room with the assailant lying on the floor and not appearing to hold any weapon. Gabbay, without her glasses, is seen shooting in his direction from a pistol as she and a male guard, who was stabbed as the attack began, both flee the room.

The video then jumps to show the assailant still on the ground, but now holding an M-16 rifle, which he points at the guards, who are standing outside the doorway. The terrorist tries, but fails, to cock and fire the rifle, and the guards jump on him and wrestle the rifle away.

Gabbay said they tried to grab the rifle by hand rather than attempting to disarm the terrorist from a safe distance because their pistols had jammed.

Later in the clip, Gabbay is seen using the rifle to fire at the knifeman, who is lying unarmed on the floor. Over a minute passes before the male guard returns with a pistol in his hand and is seen watching over the injured terrorist as he writhes and tries to grab for objects within his reach.

Gabbay said the guards initially left the terrorist alone in the room with her rifle “because we feared he could have a bomb.”

The two guards were taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus by the Magen David Adom ambulance service after receiving medical treatment at the scene.

Gabbay, 24, was lightly-to-moderately injured, and the male guard, in his 20s, was lightly hurt in the attack, MDA said at the time.

Gabbay told Ynet she was still recovering from the attack, but had been released from the hospital “after a not-easy surgery.”

“I don’t know if I’ll be going back to work,” she added.

Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have been high since October 7, when some 3,000 terrorists burst through the Gaza border into Israel in a Hamas-led attack, killing at least 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and seizing some 240 hostages.

Israel responded with an aerial campaign and subsequent ground operation with the goal of destroying Hamas and ending its 16-year rule over Gaza and securing the release of the hostages.

The Israel Defense Forces has continued to operate throughout the West Bank and police have been on high alert in Israel, in light of concerns about a possible escalation of violence.