A 25-year-old police officer was wounded in a terror attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, police and Magen David Adom reported.
The incident occurred at one of the entrance gates to the Temple Mount.
The suspect reportedly arrived at the scene with a knife, and a police officer approached him. The attacker then charged at the officer and stabbed him in the back.
The suspect was shot and killed at the scene by a border guard and a second police officer, according to Maariv. The wounded officer was evacuated by MD
A personnel for medical treatment at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition.The suspect was a 17-year-old resident of Jerusalem’s Beit Hanina neighborhood, the police statement said.
Terror attack in the West Bank
A recent terror attack took the life of Tzeela Gez, a 30-year-old mother of three, on Wednesday night in a shooting on Route 446 in the West Bank's Binyamin region while en route to the hospital to give birth to her fourth child.
Doctors at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva declared her dead the following morning after attempting to save her life.
After conducting an emergency Caesarean section to save her unborn child, hospital officials reported a slight improvement in the baby’s condition as of Friday morning. However, they stated that the baby's condition is still serious but stable.
Last week, at least three IDF soldiers were wounded in two separate incidents that occurred minutes apart in the West Bank. The wounded were evacuated via helicopter to the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
James Genn contributed to this report.