Knife attack in East Jerusalem: Israeli soldier seriously wounded, attacker killed

A new knife attack occurred this Monday in East Jerusalem. An Israeli soldier was seriously wounded in front of a police station located in this Palestinian part of the Holy City, annexed by Israel since 1967. The attacker was killed, Israeli police said. “A terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the Shalem police station and stabbed a female soldier… Border police forces neutralized the terrorist by shooting,” her statement said.

Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said it treated a wounded 20-year-old as well as another lightly wounded man of the same age. According to Israeli police, the attacker is a young Palestinian from Al-Issawi, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem. “Another suspect” in connection with the attack was detained near the scene, the same source added.

The area of ​​the attack near the Damascus Gate, one of the entrances to the Old City, was cordoned off and Israeli police chief Yaakov Shabtai rushed to the scene.

Tension throughout the month.

Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, sparked by the Islamist movement’s unprecedented deadly attack on Israeli soil on October 7, tensions have risen in East Jerusalem, including the Old City. tourists.

On October 12, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem opened fire in the same location, wounding two soldiers and was later killed. And on October 30, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem was killed after stabbing an Israeli policeman outside a nearby gas station. “Our police officers have been on the front lines for a month,” said Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who advocated “zero tolerance” and called for the attacker’s home to be destroyed.

Also in the morning, a Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded by “Israeli bullets” in Halhoul, near Hebron in the southern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In the occupied West Bank, more than 150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since it began on October 7.